Tag: google

  • Android Wear ads

    Android Wear’s new advertisement tells you nothing about the device. Unless hand-tutting is something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybg5klCxQGA Compare that with Apple Watch ads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ql0Z8Il73s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPpMeRCG1WQ

  • The inside story of how Apple’s new medical research platform was born

    Fusion reported on how Apple’s new medical research platform was born. “No one wants to entrust their health data to a company that’s going to sell them to the highest bidder, and the highest bidders usually include the worst privacy abusers. Apple has taken a very principled stance,” Munos added. “It’s the kind of reassurance…

  • Google wants to own .app, .blog, .cloud, .dev and .search domains

    Drew Crawford on Google’s attempt to own the .dev top-level domain. Let’s talk about a domain that’s near and dear to my heart, .dev. Wouldn’t it be great to have a domain for content targeted at software developers? So that you could actually get a domain name for www.[your-side-project].dev? Instead abusing the .io domain which…

  • Google backtracks from Android Lollipop encryption

    Ars Technica reported on Google backtracking from compulsory encryption for Android Lollipop devices. Last year, Google made headlines when it revealed that its next version of Android would require full-disk encryption on all new phones. Older versions of Android had supported optional disk encryption, but Android 5.0 Lollipop would make it a standard feature. But…

  • CEOs of Facebook, Google and Yahoo to skip Obama’s cybersecurity summit

    Bloomberg reported on three of tech’s top CEOs planning to skip President Obama’s cybersecurity summit. Facebook Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, and Google’s Larry Page and Eric Schmidt all were invited but won’t attend the public conference at Stanford University, according to the companies. Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook…

  • Siri is getting faster

    John Gruber wrote about Siri’s improvements. I’ve noticed over the past year that Siri is getting faster — both at parsing spoken input and returning results. I use iOS’s voice-to-text dictation feature on a near-daily basis, and it’s especially noticeable there. I’ve been using a Moto X running Android 5.0 the past few weeks, so…

  • Difference between how Apple and Google are perceived

    Ben Thompson wrote on Stratechery about bad assumptions. And yet, the perception that Apple is somehow hanging on by the skin of their teeth persists. I was speaking to someone about Apple’s particularly excellent China results this afternoon, and was struck at how their questions were so focused on threats to Apple – “How will…

  • Less than 0.1% of Android devices run Lollipop

    Business Insider reported on the breakdown of Android version adoption. Google in November launched Android Lollipop, which it called its largest, most ambitious OS update ever — but no one is using it. Less than 0.1% of Android devices currently run Lollipop, according to the company’s most recent numbers. The problem is, very few phones…

  • Yahoo’s decline

    John Gruber wrote a very good piece on Yahoo’s decline. I would argue that Yahoo lost its way early. Yahoo was an amazing, awesome resource when it first appeared, as a directory to cool websites. Arguably, the directory to cool websites. It was hard to find the good stuff on the early web, and Yahoo…

  • The myth of device lock-in

    John Gruber wrote a very good piece on switching and lock-in to phone systems in response to an article by Joshua Brustein in Businessweek. Brustein: Phone manufacturers make it hard to switch on purpose: They want you locked in forever. That’s the idea behind the Apple Watch and Apple Pay, which don’t work for Android.…