Ah, and there's the rub
. The internet doesn't offer actual privacy (i.e. Google knows exactly who you are based in your IP address and ISP). Certainly one would assume that the internet would offer privacy with regards to ISP's not giving out your personal information, BUT who is to state that they don't? Or that Google doesn't already have your information? They're selling it, and giving it to other companies. How else do they know who you are, what you read, where you shop, what you like, what you eat, etc? It's all part of the corporate game, everything is for sale, and everything has a price. Welcome to the New World.
I'm still confused on why Google's getting so much of the ire in this regard, when they're not the only one doing it. We're all pretty much in agreement that every (large?) company you do business with collects data on you, uses it to market to you in the future, and probably sells it to make more money off you.
Even on the internet, Google's not the only one doing this. Do you honestly think Yahoo, Microsoft, and all the others that you have accounts with aren't gathering, cataloging, marketing your information? I'm pretty sure Time Warner sold my info when I had road runner cable, and my webhosting service seems to have generated some snail mail into my door slot from third parties.
Question: If Google went out of business today, just shut up the shop and destroyed all their computers, would the internet be a better place? A safer place? A more anonymous place? Or would we just start focusing our privacy concerns on Yahoo or whoever steps back into first place?
the touch-screen problems plaguing the Nexus One aren't helping sales either
http://www.cnet.com/8301-19736_1-10418990-251.html
Not being an Android user, I haven't paid much attention. Let me read some other articles first...
Okay, it doesn't sound like hardware per se (raw touchscreens are simple) but the touchscreen controller firmware is most likely at fault... and that might not be fixable in situ.
From their descriptions, it sounds like initial and continuous state data are not being handled correctly, or are being stepped on, or maybe direction sign info is goofed. In other words, something creates bad state info, causing calibration and coordinate sequencing mistakes. That's what I'd look at first, but I'm sure Google and HTC and the touchscreen firmware maker are all on the case.
The article you quoted said their review unit had not had any such problems, so it could be isolated to a certain firmware revision or usage scenario.
At least all the articles note that Google has said they'll either send out a software update or replace units as needed.
Sounds like Google is publicly taking responsibility for a fix. That's better than some other companies who tend to sweep problems under the rug.
That's a great analysis.
As much as I love my Nexus One and prefer it over the iPhone, I have to admit that the touchscreen shows some very rare occasional flakiness. That particular flakiness appears to be in the software, though, as a simple turning on and off the screen fixes any input issues.
EDIT: Forgot to mention that my understanding of this is that it's really only an issue for games that expect certain inputs from the screen - at least no applications I've used, including some simple games, seem to suffer any ill effects from this glitch. I wish it wasn't there, but in day to day life, it appears to be zero impact on my phone.
Minus the fact that the big virus one was a load of crap.
the "virus" found on it did not infect the Android phone. It was a virus resting in flash memory that had a autoplay tag on to it to spread to the computer it was attached to. That same virus on it can and will infect iPhones the exact same way since the iPhone has part of it that is accessed like a flash drive.
And don't forget that the virus was on a refurbed phone that was obtained from VodaPhone, not from Google/HTC directly.
The detractors who keep pointing this virus out seem to forget that even our beloved Apple has actually shipped out iPods in the recent past that had Windows viruses on them - FACTORY DIRECT FROM APPLE:
http://www.apple.com/support/windowsvirus/
In my mind, the issue is Windows, and everything that touches them is at risk, not Android or iPhone OS with any particular lack of security. They're BOTH *nix systems for pete's sake.
