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HanSolo said:
From the Boy Idiot Report on the whole Eldar business:



Are all phone manufacturers evil heartless monsters?

Geez. I was hoping that this non-Columbus day would be ripe with good leaks and maybe an official announcement. Seems like it will be mostly depressing.

And I don't even want to read the newspaper with the whole Bears disaster.
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I don't like the negative accusatory slant put on the story by BGR... I really hope that isn't true. It would be shameful. But it does seem more and more likely that SoC will be from TI.
 
xtop said:
capacitive buttons and software buttons work the same way
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Yeah, plus I don't get the feeling that problems with the buttons would crop up so late in the process. That's something you'd think they would have nailed down early on, since it's such an integral part of ICS.

I don't really know what to believe at this point. But my money is on something bad is happening with ICS. I just hope that we don't end up getting Bionic'd.

This was going to be my first Samsung shot, too. I hope I don't get burned!
 
Given that Google is backing HTC against Apple, and given that the key two patents Apple is trying to hold over HTC's head were being challenged by Motorola as their prior art, rendering the patents invalid if upheld as true by the court, I'm really not buying that anything about this has to do with fear of Apple lawsuits. (Oh - and all of the news and saber-rattling on that stopped as soon as the acquisition started, and none of the reliable sources reported on the significance of that, so - you know.)

I get the guy is a reliable analyst, yadda yadda yadda, but this smacks too much of sensational conspiracy theory for me to buy into at this point.

Choose -- The announcement is delayed because:


  1. A mourning period for the friend of the Google CEO was in order
  2. Of good marketing, don't introduce your next big thing in the shadow of the iPhone announcement and Jobs death, else suffer the press hammering "Apple, Apple, Apple" while doing so
  3. Google discovered out of the blue and at the last minute that Ice Cream Sandwich, a fusion of Gingerbread and Honeycomb that been out for months, suddenly has a important patented Apple features and Apple litigation is really scary to Google and/or Samsung

Occam's Razor - the simplest answer is usually the right one.

I could be wrong, I often am. But today - I'm not buying it.
 
gilgehmesh said:
I don't like the negative accusatory slant put on the story by BGR... I really hope that isn't true. It would be shameful. But it does seem more and more likely that SoC will be from TI.
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Sorry if you're offended. But BGR's track record has been shoddy at best. Their "leak" of a definite iPhone 5 on Sprint a couple of days before we all knew it didn't exist reeked of idiocy.
 
I don't know what to say... This is looking crappy...

When they change something in the initial code (I hope they wrote a bigger part if not whole code from the beginning), system will lose it's stability, as someone here told apps are goin to 'force close' because of missing code elements... I'm.. scared a bit.

Can someone give me some consolation? Please?
 
I fully expected a rousing chant of "99 Droids On The Wall...take one down...pass it around..." to begin a few posts ago.
 
Thejungle said:
I don't know what to say... This is looking crappy...

When they change something in the initial code (I hope they wrote a bigger part if not whole code from the beginning), system will lose it's stability, as someone here told apps are goin to 'force close' because of missing code elements... I'm.. scared a bit.

Can someone give me some consolation? Please?
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Sure. This so-called reliable Russian blogger was discredited on most of his Froyo statements and now we're hearing from him again.

I'm calling shenanigans.
 
I'm sure it's nothing to worry about. I'm also sure VZ_wired will give us a "it's ok" pep talk like he/she always does. He/she will read how much we are freaking out and then save the day like always! :)
 
Thejungle said:
I don't know what to say... This is looking crappy...

When they change something in the initial code (I hope they wrote a bigger part if not whole code from the beginning), system will lose it's stability, as someone here told apps are goin to 'force close' because of missing code elements... I'm.. scared a bit.

Can someone give me some consolation? Please?
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The main ICS code is a combination of Gingerbread and Honeycomb, both of which belong to Google. Apple probably has patents to end-of-screen bounce-backs and things with little to do with the main code. This SHOULD be an easy fix, once Google finds the right work-arounds.

There. You're consoled :)
 
Thejungle said:
I don't know what to say... This is looking crappy...

When they change something in the initial code (I hope they wrote a bigger part if not whole code from the beginning), system will lose it's stability, as someone here told apps are goin to 'force close' because of missing code elements... I'm.. scared a bit.

Can someone give me some consolation? Please?
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There there, Jungle. There there.

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It will all be all right. Calm down now. . .that's it. . . .
 
g_patrick15 said:
Am I the only one not even remotely interested in the Samsung Note? It's too big for a phone. It's more tablet than phone, and you'll look lik an idiot trying to talk into it.
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Only a tiny portion of my Droid usage is as a telephone, and all of the rest is better served w/larger phone. Besides, phones are light these days and I don't care what it looks like when I'm on a call. I just say "Yes, Mr President" every now and then and nobody bothers me.

vandyman said:
I do not believe there is a ICS patient problem. The Problem maybe with the soft buttons as I stated before. The soft buttons need to be in control at all times.
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I can't believe they're a significant problem, mainly because it's way too obvious to have been overlooked by those who designed it in the first place. I'm not claiming that everybody will necessarily prefer the new soft buttons, just that it's not plausible that they wouldn't have anticipated and provided solutions for the main problems they could cause.

EDIT: Jeez, Han already said this exactly 7 minutes and 12 posts ago. I can't keep up here, anything I write has already been written by someone else by the time I click the Save button!
 
What if ICS, though, included a voice assistant almost identical to the Apple one unveiled? Wouldn't that bring about a lot of problems? And an app like that would probably be integrated with maps, google search, phone, who knows what else. That could be a tangled mess.
 
Thejungle said:
Sorry, but I don't understand.. :o
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On the idea that ICS is compromised.

EarlyMon said:
Given that Google is backing HTC against Apple, and given that the key two patents Apple is trying to hold over HTC's head were being challenged by Motorola as their prior art, rendering the patents invalid if upheld as true by the court, I'm really not buying that anything about this has to do with fear of Apple lawsuits. (Oh - and all of the news and saber-rattling on that stopped as soon as the acquisition started, and none of the reliable sources reported on the significance of that, so - you know.)

I get the guy is a reliable analyst, yadda yadda yadda, but this smacks too much of sensational conspiracy theory for me to buy into at this point.

Choose -- The announcement is delayed because:


  1. A mourning period for the friend of the Google CEO was in order
  2. Of good marketing, don't introduce your next big thing in the shadow of the iPhone announcement and Jobs death, else suffer the press hammering "Apple, Apple, Apple" while doing so
  3. Google discovered out of the blue and at the last minute that Ice Cream Sandwich, a fusion of Gingerbread and Honeycomb that been out for months, suddenly has a important patented Apple features and Apple litigation is really scary to Google and/or Samsung

Occam's Razor - the simplest answer is usually the right one.

I could be wrong, I often am. But today - I'm not buying it.
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Whole lotta click-thru advertising money happening in the blogosphere right now over something that's completely illogical to me.

I claim that no such last-minute takedown of ICS code or features is happening due to anything involving Apple patents, because it's irrational.

Period.

That's my opinion.

By the way - I could be right. I often am. ;)
 
If its a waiting you want, a waiting game is what you'll get. Thanks to CM7, i'm in no hurry to use my upgrade.

With that said, i'm still thinking 11/3 is the day. Not sure i'm buying the patent worries story. They've known about those for too long to wait until 3 weeks before launch to address them. Especially with ICS receiving "daily" updates.
 
HanSolo said:
What if ICS, though, included a voice assistant almost identical to the Apple one unveiled? Wouldn't that bring about a lot of problems? And an app like that would probably be integrated with maps, google search, phone, who knows what else. That could be a tangled mess.
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Yeah... I hope won't screw this up..
 
HanSolo said:
What if ICS, though, included a voice assistant almost identical to the Apple one unveiled? Wouldn't that bring about a lot of problems? And an app like that would probably be integrated with maps, google search, phone, who knows what else. That could be a tangled mess.
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No. Intellectual property law does not work that way.

At all.

And we already have voice recognition working in most all of those ways.
 
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