Tag: Android
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Aesthetic Computing Consider “ascetic computing”: Here’s what “ascetic computing” means to me: Doing without things that compromise my personal standards or morals. Learning to live Fearlessly in the face of Missing Out. Resisting the Endless Pursuit of Shiny Things. … The goal is to live a (computing) life of principle, purpose, and focus. … Nothing…
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Researchers at the University of Manchester followed 25,000 11- to 14-year-olds over three school years, tracking their self-reported social media habits, gaming frequency and emotional difficulties to find out whether technology use genuinely predicted later mental health difficulties. Participants were asked how much time on a normal weekday in term time they spent on TikTok,…
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School phone policies and their association with mental wellbeing, phone use, and social media use (SMART Schools): a cross-sectional observational study – Update on the young people and those damn video games. // “There is no evidence that restrictive school policies are associated with overall phone and social media use or better mental wellbeing in adolescents.…
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Most developers have adopted devops, survey says – I’ll have to look at this more, but: “29% of developers used continuous integration to automatically build and test.” This means that 71% of respondents are not automating their builds and tests. // “Grady Booch first proposed the term CI in his 1991 method, although he did…
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Jalapeños are pickled, but pickles aren’t jalapeños
Confusion Over Pickles Burger King in Antwerp, Nov 14th, 2018. In Ghent, for a quick dinner, I went to Burger King. I ordered a burger – the “steakhouse” or something, which was a mistake because as Texan, I can’t stand sweet BBQ sauce, but it was fine. When I went to the counter to pick…
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Link: The Smart, the Stupid, and the Catastrophically Scary
“Part of me likes being a programmer—because we’re the last job. I can see a future—if we don’t manage to blow ourselves up first—in the robot paradise where people are either robot engineers or programmers, or I guess do marketing. Or maybe bake pies, or smell things? Those are essentially the hardest things for a…
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Link: Happy as Larry: Why Oracle won the Google Java Android case • The Register
“To sum up, then: Google knew it needed a licence, didn’t get one, and tried to bluff it out.” Original source: Happy as Larry: Why Oracle won the Google Java Android case • The Register
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Link: Will 2018 be the year of the neo-luddite?
‘More significantly, the whole of society seems to have woken up to the fact there is a psychological cost to constant checking, swiping and staring. A growing number of my friends now have “no phone” times, don’t instantly sign into the cafe wifi, or have weekends away without their computers. This behaviour is no longer…
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Link: Google takes $1.1bn chomp out of HTC, smacks lips, burps
Google still looking to crack into hardware. Maybe getting a clutch of regular, steady performers instead of startup rock-stars will help: ‘Google has formally completed its $1.1bn (£780m) takeover of a chunk of HTC, under which some 2,000 staff will transfer to work on the chocolate factory’s Pixel phone. ‘In a blog post, Rick Osterloh,…
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Link: How smart speakers stole the show from smartphones
“In the first nine months of 2017, 17.1m smart speakers shipped worldwide, according to Canalys’s data, but a further 16.1m were shipped in the last quarter of the year driven by Christmas present sales…. The trend towards smart speakers becoming mainstream is expected to continue. Canalys is forecasting 70% year-on-year growth with shipments reaching over…
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Who’s collecting Android profits?
As you have probably guessed, the one making the most profit from Android is market leader Samsung, but the actual figure may come as a surprise, as it’s said to have taken almost 95 percent of the global profits earned from the mobile OS during the first quarter of 2013. Analysts broke it down like…
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The beast known as Samsung
If there was a common thread among everyone The Verge spoke with for this story, it was Samsung’s brutal dominance: the Korean giant’s own-sourced display and processor combined with an enormous marketing war chest make competing in Android extraordinarily difficult. —The beast known as Samsung
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The new fragmentation
The result is the CIOs and individuals face a market over the next five years where Microsoft still dominates PCs, Apple’s iPad leads the tablet category, and Google’s Android leads in smartphone sales. Frank Gillett, Forrester
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