Here are a couple of interesting articles... Censorship at its best....
http://phandroid.com/2010/06/29/att-we-block-non-market-apps-to-keep-developers-in-check/ and... Potential Abuse of power????? http://phandroid.com/2010/06/24/google-can-remotely-remove-apps-from-your-phone/ taking your point further. What about the google tablet that is starting to or about to come out? Is it going to come out with ANDROID or Chrome OS. Chrome OS s at least based upon Ubuntu. Are they going to keep Chrome OS open source? Are they going to make Android open source? Probably not. It will be interesting having another major OS player in the market. THe comparison of Apple to Microsoft is Apples to Lemons on all technology fronts. Where will google fit? Thoughts???? Adam Flaig "Its never too late to become what you might have been" On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Chris Penn <cantorm...@gmail.com> wrote: > "SMobile analyzed metadata from almost 49,000 Android Market apps -- > roughly 68 percent of all the apps available for download from the > online store. > > More than 34,600 apps analyzed tried to get permission to open network > sockets by tapping the "Internet" service, SMobile found. > > Another 12,000 apps analyzed requested permission to tap data from the > "Access_Coarse_Location" service. This lets an app access the user's > cellphone ID or WiFi location." > > Ref: > http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/products/70278.html?wlc=1277981251 > > I wonder how this compares to the IPhone. > > I cannot say for sure because I do not own an Android phone but my > guess is that these apps are not (GPLv) Open Source. > > Chris... > > > > -- > "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to > be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." > -Roger Penrose > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
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