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Exactly. He started recusing himself way after the iPhone was shown to the Apple Board...the only ones denying this fact are the Google fans around here.

And you know this because? Source?

Schmidt was practically the SINGLE reason why SJ ever uttered the word "thermonuclear". As for "glowing" statements from the Board, they mean either of the following:

I would guess Steve's reason for wanting to go thermonuclear was because of multitouch gestures. That and the fact that Android was a growing threat. And as Steve was often very colorful with his language as per his bio - I would imagine the hyperbole of "thermonuclear" was his was extreme way of saying he wanted to put Android out of business. Note I say Android. Not Eric Schmidt. Jobs never said Eric was a thief. Nor did he say he was going to go thermonuclear on Eric.

Do you understand the difference?
 
As you seem to know a lot about technology, can you explain in plain words how a GPL source can be stolen if it is used in other project?

"As of 2006, approximately two percent of the Linux kernel was written by Torvalds himself.[21] As thousands have contributed to the Linux kernel, this percentage is one of the largest contributions to it. Though, he stated in 2012, that his own personal contribution is mostly merging code written by others, with little programming.[34] Torvalds remains the final authority on what new code is incorporated into the standard Linux kernel.[35]
Torvalds owns the "Linux" trademark and monitors the use of it,[36] chiefly through the Linux Mark Institute.

Edit : He even wrote it on a Next system
 
"As of 2006, approximately two percent of the Linux kernel was written by Torvalds himself.[21] As thousands have contributed to the Linux kernel, this percentage is one of the largest contributions to it. Though, he stated in 2012, that his own personal contribution is mostly merging code written by others, with little programming.[34] Torvalds remains the final authority on what new code is incorporated into the standard Linux kernel.[35]
Torvalds owns the "Linux" trademark and monitors the use of it,[36] chiefly through the Linux Mark Institute.

No, no, in plain words.

By the way, a little secret, that quote has nothing to do with licenses or what can do anyone with the Linux kernel
 
More likely because the approved version did not use the private API for the proximity sensor..

None of that is very accurate. Google didn't wait 16 months to resubmit an app because of one api call. Are you saying all the GV apps were banned because they used the API too? Some people will do anything to try to make Apple look good. Just a little common sense will tell you why it wasn't approved.
 
So where are the facts that support your case? The burden of proof is on the person making extraordinary claims.

Yes, the burden of proof is on the persons accusing Schmidt of a very serious crime

The Google copying Apple thing is part of the historical record and very recent public consciousness.

Please, can you link to that "historical record"?
 
No, and neither can you. It's also a sure bet that Google will gather more data than they claim. It's an easily verified, time-proven corporate practice for Google.

I have said Android, not Google. So, you don't know a **** about that but you're making claims that Android gathers private data?

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Apple also said the Google Voice app was never submitted several years ago

No, this is false, hence the FCC investigation
 
A cursory Google doesn't show this as a large annoyance for Android devs. Either way, I'm sorry you have to work harder to provide a better experience to the end user, but that's the way things work. Work harder and make better products. Do you really want to force me to use Safari because you just don't feel like doing better work?

Do you pay me more if i support other browsers ?
No ? Sorry, don't have the money
 
That's like saying you won't install Find my iPhone because you're afraid Apple will track you.

Apple is no saint. Remember not too long ago how Apple and Google had to testify on how they tracked their users. Apple finally made changes to the IS that this tracking data would get destroyed each time location services was turned off.
 
This path of developement is also the reason why Android had such a laggy GUI all the time - because it wasn't planned with hardware-accelerated graphics in mind.

Any source to back this or it is only opinion?

Not quite true; probably over-summarized from news sites.

There's many forms of hardware acceleration. Even Android 1.0 had some meager level of GPU-based hardware acceleration.

On the other hand, you might have been talking about hardware accelerated compositing within windows.

That was simply because they just didn't have GPUs/CPUs to support that in the beginning alongside the planned feature set. It's added in HC/ICS though.
A good improvement, although years late to the table.

Plenty of other things to tackle next.

Here's the original sources.
https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/2FXDCz8x93s
https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/XAZ4CeVP6DC
https://plus.google.com/100838276097451809262/posts/VDkV9XaJRGS

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Apple also said the Google Voice app was never submitted several years ago. You can't really believe either side when it comes to app store submissions.

Source? It's publicly known the app was rejected (in my opinion, unfairly), but when did they ever deny it was submitted in the first place?
 
Google has yet to be sued directly by Apple for copying any of their patents or technologies.

Give it up pal. That's not proof of anything. You just talk silliness, and contrarianism by default. Its like you forgot to turn off the System Preferences>Keyboard>Accessibility>Invert Colors checkbox, then did a control+option+command+8 on rationality.

We all saw the meager origins of "Android", Google was very proud of it before the iPhone smacked them upside the head.

That little robot is totally lame too. Granted they didn't copy that either right? They just happen to make a really bad knock off of r2d2?
 
"As of 2006, approximately two percent of the Linux kernel was written by Torvalds himself.[21] As thousands have contributed to the Linux kernel, this percentage is one of the largest contributions to it. Though, he stated in 2012, that his own personal contribution is mostly merging code written by others, with little programming.[34] Torvalds remains the final authority on what new code is incorporated into the standard Linux kernel.[35]
Torvalds owns the "Linux" trademark and monitors the use of it,[36] chiefly through the Linux Mark Institute.

Edit : He even wrote it on a Next system

I'm not quite understanding what you're getting at here.

Anyone can use and alter the Linux kernel to their heart's content. It's the very definition of a free and open source OS. If you want to take it, alter huge swaths of the kernel to make Peace Linux, you're more than welcome to do so.

But it'll be a fork, and will be treated as such. Official, main trunk, plain old Linux will always be the purview of Torvalds.

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Give it up pal. That's not proof of anything.

It's proof that there's no historical record of Google copying Apple like you claimed. No one's sued them for it, so how can there be?
 
I have said Android, not Google. So, you don't know a **** about that but you're making claims that Android gathers private data?

Google never gathers private data? So again, what exactly does Poodle get out of Android? Further, since you clearly haven't thought this through...

What does Google get out of Gmail?
What does Google get out of Google Maps?
What does Google get out of Google Docs?
What does Google get out of Google Voice?

There's no f*%@in' doubt Google collects personal information, the only confusion is from those who believe they totally randomize it for their safety.
 
Enjoy your warm Google blankie (Big Brother).

What's amusing is that regardless of whether I agree with the poster you're responding to - you immediately go into attack mode with your whole Google blankie comment. Who said the original poster likes Google or is advocating Google's practices. The poster was pointing out that both Apple and Google and other entities are all collecting information about us. That doesn't equate with him being PRO Google (or Anti Apple)

But you always go there. It's rather silly.
 
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No, and neither can you. It's also a sure bet that Google will gather more data than they claim. It's an easily verified, time-proven corporate practice for Google.

If it were easily verified, then you, or anyone else for that matter, would be able to identify any information they collect on you.

While we're at it, is it a widely held view here that Apple have no vested in, and currently do not engage in, the tracking of user actions and habits in a similar way to Google? iAds was created to counter google after all, and the most effective way of 'improving' the hit rate of ads would be to tailor ads to users, based on all available information.

Or are we living in a little bubble where every action by Google or Samsung is copying Apple, and every Apple action is some sort of philanthropic gesture aimed at saving the world from the tyranny of advertising (Only Google's ads, of course, Apple's ones don't count)?
 
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