Posts Tagged “Android”

Google App Store Monopoly Remedy (1)October 9, 2024
iA Writer’s Google Drive Access (6)September 27, 2024
Google Delayed Removing Yobit Pro Scam App (1)August 28, 2024
Skip 1.0 August 28, 2024
AirPods Fast Connect Vulnerability (5)July 4, 2024
Moaan InkPalm Plus (3)June 28, 2024
Japan Passes Law to Allow App Marketplaces (22)June 17, 2024
Dark Mode iOS 18 App Icons and Home Screen Personalization (4)June 13, 2024
Why Your Wi-Fi Router Doubles As an AirTag (2)May 31, 2024
Unwanted Tracking Alerts in iOS and Android (4)May 31, 2024
Can Anyone But a Tech Giant Build the Next Big Thing? (9)May 29, 2024
The Dark Age of Authentication (20)May 23, 2024
VLC vs. the App Stores (11)April 19, 2024
Effects of the DMA’s Browser Choice Requirement April 12, 2024
Trying to Bring Apple Watch to Android (3)April 5, 2024
DMA Compliance: Google March 14, 2024
Microsoft Ending Windows Subsystem for Android (3)March 12, 2024
A Complete Guide to Bluesky (1)February 26, 2024
The iMessage Halo Effect (1)February 14, 2024
Fossil Is Quitting Smartwatches January 29, 2024
Platform Tilt January 29, 2024
Unity Store Bans VLC January 15, 2024
Beeper and the Centurion Lounge (19)December 29, 2023
Beeper’s Final Fixes and Government Investigations (3)December 22, 2023
Measuring the Data iOS and Android Send to Apple and Google (6)December 20, 2023
Epic Wins Antitrust Case With Google (14)December 13, 2023
Apple Blocks Beeper Mini (10)December 11, 2023
Standalone Beeper Mini Brings iMessage to Android (7)December 6, 2023
Google Pays to Be Default on Samsung Phones November 27, 2023
Spotify’s Google Play Store Deal November 22, 2023
Nothing’s iMessage App Was a Security Catastrophe (3)November 22, 2023
Apple to Add RCS Messaging in iOS 17 Update (4)November 16, 2023
Fitbit Charge 6 and Google Pixel Watch 2 November 13, 2023
Google Abandons Web Environment Integrity API November 3, 2023
The Average Lifespan of a Smartphone (8)October 20, 2023
Pixel 8 Leak Promises 7 Years of OS Updates (1)October 3, 2023
No App, No Entry (4)August 30, 2023
U.K. Proposal to Weaken Messaging Security (2)August 24, 2023
Twitter to Remove Block Feature (3)August 21, 2023
Typography Is Impossible (1)August 16, 2023
What’s the Deal With Sensor Tower? (5)August 8, 2023
Absurdly Long YouTube Videos That Play Nothing on Purpose (6)July 17, 2023
French Bill to Allow Police to Commandeer Phones (11)July 7, 2023
A Vatican-Sized Flag Mystery July 5, 2023
Proposed Japanese Law for Alternate App Stores (7)June 20, 2023
Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers (1)May 16, 2023
Bob Lee, RIP April 5, 2023
General Motors to Phase Out CarPlay (4)April 4, 2023
Recovering Cropped Parts of Google Pixel Screenshots (2)March 21, 2023
Apple Music Classical Pre-Order (7)March 9, 2023
The Limits of Computational Photography (2)February 22, 2023
Android App Cloning (6)February 13, 2023
Facebook Negative Testing (8)February 6, 2023
The State of Enthusiast Apps on Android (16)February 1, 2023
Memory Safe Languages in Android 13 January 6, 2023
Shopify Migrating to React Native January 5, 2023
EarSpy: Eavesdropping Using Motion Sensors January 4, 2023
The Voice Assistant Battle 2023 (7)December 30, 2022
AirTag Stalking Class Action Lawsuit (5)December 6, 2022
Android Contact Tracing App Installed Without Consent (1)November 23, 2022
Google Paid Blizzard to Stay on Play Store (6)November 17, 2022
WhatsApp More Private Than iMessage (8)October 17, 2022
Spark Switches to Electron and Subscriptions (13)October 4, 2022
iPhone User Base Overtakes Android in U.S. (15)September 2, 2022
Samsung’s Repair Mode (9)August 19, 2022
Time for Apple to Fix Texting (9)August 10, 2022
South Korea Investigates App Store August 9, 2022
Music Unitasker (10)May 13, 2022
Alternative Android App Stores May 9, 2022
Police Records on AirTag Stalking (10)April 11, 2022
Apple Removes In-App Google TV Purchases (1)March 24, 2022
Incentives in Product Design and Development (4)March 23, 2022
Web3 Choke Point: App Stores (2)February 25, 2022
Android Privacy Sandbox February 16, 2022
AirTag Updates to Address Unwanted Tracking (3)February 10, 2022
Blue Bubble Envy Is Real (8)January 11, 2022
Exposure Notification Update, January 2022 (5)January 4, 2022
Tracker Detect Android App for AirTag (1)December 13, 2021
Car Thieves Using AirTags (11)December 3, 2021
Tim Sweeney Calls for Single, Universal App Store (5)November 16, 2021
Google Wants Fee for Alternate Billing Systems (17)November 8, 2021
iPhone 13 Pro Max vs. Pixel 6 Pro (1)October 27, 2021
Google Play Store Drops Fees on Subscriptions and Content (3)October 21, 2021
Apple Refuses App Store Changes for South Korea (3)October 15, 2021
Boox Nova Air Review October 12, 2021
Some Web Sites Will Stop Working With El Capitan and Older (135)September 24, 2021
South Korea App Store Bill (9)September 1, 2021
On the Shift From Imperative to Declarative UI September 1, 2021
Open App Markets Act (1)August 25, 2021
App Store Fee Reductions and Apple Strategy Tax (1)August 21, 2021
Google Considered Buying Epic August 6, 2021
Windows 11: Android Apps (1)July 21, 2021
Pocket Casts Acquired by Automattic (6)July 16, 2021
States v. Google Play Store July 12, 2021
Google Sunsets the APK Format for New Android Apps (2)July 1, 2021
Apple Attacks Sideloading (12)June 25, 2021
Google Messages Adds End-to-End Encryption (6)June 22, 2021
Amazon Appstore Lowers Fees (2)June 21, 2021
FaceTime in iOS 15 and Monterey (4)June 9, 2021
Uber’s Crazy YOLO App Rewrite (2)May 28, 2021
Epic v. Apple, Day 15 (8)May 21, 2021
Epic v. Apple, Day 14 (1)May 21, 2021
AirTag (8)April 20, 2021
Rust Support in the Linux Kernel April 15, 2021
NHS COVID-19 App Rejected on Privacy Grounds (6)April 12, 2021
Keyboard Shortcuts and non-US Layouts (5)April 9, 2021
Why There’s No iMessage for Android (10)April 9, 2021
History of Flow vs. Asana April 7, 2021
Copying the Java API Was Fair Use (1)April 5, 2021
Goodbye, Cortana (4)March 31, 2021
Google Play Store Drops Commission to 15% (5)March 16, 2021
Negative Robinhood Reviews Deleted (4)January 30, 2021
Displaying the State or the Action (4)January 26, 2021
Beeper Brings iMessage to Android and Windows (1)January 21, 2021
Data Security on Mobile Devices January 20, 2021
The Case of the Extra 40 ms December 31, 2020
Cellebrite and Signal December 23, 2020
Google Antitrust Lawsuit (6)October 23, 2020
Google v. Oracle at Supreme Court (5)October 9, 2020
Sunsetting Google Play Music (5)October 9, 2020
Japanese Game Developers Complain About App Store (24)September 7, 2020
Unity’s IPO Filing (1)August 26, 2020
Subscription or No Subscription? (4)August 24, 2020
Google Pixel 4a vs. iPhone SE August 7, 2020
Microsoft’s Catalyst (4)August 5, 2020
Exposure Notification Update (6)July 30, 2020
New EU Regulations for App Stores (2)July 28, 2020
USB-C Is Still a Mess (12)July 27, 2020
Vision Smarts Barcode Scanner SDK (Sponsor) June 1, 2020
iPhone vs. Pixel Dictation (2)May 28, 2020
Exposure Notification (13)May 11, 2020
The App Coalition May 4, 2020
Contact Tracing (1)April 10, 2020
Google’s Software-based 3D Touch (4)March 10, 2020
Project Sandcastle: Android for the iPhone (1)March 5, 2020
Google Maps Traffic Hack February 3, 2020
Apple Dropped Plans for End-to-End Encrypted iCloud Backups After FBI Objected (10)January 21, 2020
FSF Missed the Cloud and Mobile (7)October 21, 2019
From iOS to Android and Back Again (8)September 30, 2019
The Cost of Sharing iOS and Android Code at Dropbox (5)August 15, 2019
iPhone Loyalty (11)July 18, 2019
Bill Gates’ Mea Culpa June 27, 2019
No-Click Google Searches (2)June 19, 2019
App Store Competition (12)May 30, 2019
Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License May 20, 2019
Google’s Apparent Turnaround on Privacy May 13, 2019
Galaxy Fold Review (1)April 22, 2019
US Broadband, OS, and Browser Stats April 12, 2019
Do-nothing “Antivirus” Apps (3)March 21, 2019
Galaxy Unpacked 2019 (2)February 21, 2019
Google Asks for API Copyright Case to Be Reviewed January 29, 2019
Google Pixel’s Night Sight (3)January 16, 2019
Smartphone Facial Recognition Test January 7, 2019
Facebook Was Aware That Tracking Contacts Is Creepy (1)December 7, 2018
Why I’m Ditching Android (4)November 16, 2018
Android App Ad Fraud October 25, 2018
Android Phone Manufacturers to Pay for Google Play Store October 22, 2018
Fraser Speirs Switches to a Google Pixel October 18, 2018
Google Pixel 3 and 3 XL (5)October 15, 2018
Microsoft Is Embracing Android As the Mobile Version of Windows (1)October 3, 2018
Android at 10 (3)September 27, 2018
Software Disenchantment (2)September 24, 2018
Chrome OS Is Set to Expand Beyond the Education Market (9)September 3, 2018
Advantages of Android (3)August 15, 2018
Google Tracks Your Movements, Like It or Not August 15, 2018
The European Commission Versus Android (1)July 20, 2018
An Entomologist Rates Ant Emojis July 20, 2018
App Stores and Monetization (2)July 18, 2018
Tracking Your Phone’s Location With GPS Turned Off July 18, 2018
Who Will Steal Android From Google? (2)July 5, 2018
Everything You Knew About Chromebooks Is Wrong (2)June 29, 2018
Privacy News June 26, 2018
Airbnb Switching Away From React Native (1)June 21, 2018
Malware via USB Charging (1)June 21, 2018
Basic Questions About Google Duplex (2)May 18, 2018
Why Apple Should Copy the Android P Notification Shade (2)May 15, 2018
Chrome OS Is Getting Linux App Support (21)May 11, 2018
“Black Dot” Unicode Bug (5)May 10, 2018
App Store Shrank for First Time in 2017 (4)April 5, 2018
Cambridge Analytica Harvested 50 Million Facebook Profiles (3)March 19, 2018
Lightning vs. USB-C for Headphones (7)March 16, 2018
Your Nose Isn’t Really As Big As It Looks in Selfies (2)March 9, 2018
BigTechCo Strategy: Paying the Platform Tax (2)February 26, 2018
Colour Management (1)February 1, 2018
iMessage on Android January 30, 2018
Microsoft Office 2016, Version 16.9 (2)January 22, 2018
Computer Latency: 1977-2017 January 8, 2018
Apple Acquires Buddybuild January 3, 2018
Energy Efficiency: A New Concern for Application Software Developers (1)December 22, 2017
Android Oreo Review: An iOS User’s Review December 6, 2017
Google Collects Android Users’ Locations Even When Location Services Are Disabled November 21, 2017
Skype Removed From Chinese App Stores November 21, 2017
Operating System Update Rates (2)November 20, 2017
Stealing Sensitive Browser Data With the W3C Ambient Light Sensor API (2)October 23, 2017
Google Pixel 2 (1)October 17, 2017
KRACK: Breaking WPA2 by Forcing Nonce Reuse (14)October 16, 2017
Google Pixel Buds (1)October 12, 2017
Google Maps Parking Features September 5, 2017
How Is ARCore Better Than ARKit? (1)September 5, 2017
Why Is ARKit Better Than the Alternatives? (1)August 21, 2017
Gab App Rejected by Google (and Apple) (14)August 18, 2017
iPhone and Android Cameras (4)August 7, 2017
Android Adds Official Kotlin Support May 18, 2017
Everything Is Broken (6)May 15, 2017
Secret Audio and Key Recording May 12, 2017
How Apple Won Silicon April 25, 2017
Allo Can Reveal What You’ve Searched For March 15, 2017
Every Upcoming Chromebook Will Run Android Apps January 23, 2017
The Limitations of Android N Encryption December 2, 2016
The Monkey and the Apple November 21, 2016
Computational Photography and the Pixel November 10, 2016
Google and the Limits of Strategy October 5, 2016
Realm Mobile Platform September 29, 2016
Google Reneges on Allo Privacy Feature September 28, 2016
Steve Jobs on Graphics Performance August 24, 2016
SwiftKey Keyboard Leaked User Information to Strangers (2)July 29, 2016
Android Flash Keyboard Hijacks Lock Screen, Violates Privacy July 7, 2016
Android’s Full-disk Encryption Just Got Much Weaker July 3, 2016
Monument Valley: iOS 42% of Downloads But 73% of Revenue May 23, 2016
Antitrust and Aggregation April 26, 2016
Bots Won’t Replace Apps (1)April 22, 2016
Most Android Phones Are Not Encrypted February 29, 2016
The End of Standardized Platforms February 26, 2016
Apple Services Everywhere (1)February 8, 2016
Facebook Tests Users’ Reaction to Crashes (5)January 7, 2016
Microsoft’s Astoria Proves Too Complex November 29, 2015
Ads Use Inaudible Sound to Link Your Devices November 16, 2015
Microsoft Band 2 November 10, 2015
Apps Sharing User Data (3)November 6, 2015
Facebook’s Code Quality Problem (5)November 4, 2015
Blind Camera Shootout October 27, 2015
Alex King, RIP October 4, 2015
Apple Music for Android (1)September 24, 2015
Lyft Goes Swift (2)September 11, 2015
AWS Device Farm September 3, 2015
Common Android Lock Patterns August 26, 2015
How Many Old Apple Devices Can’t Get Security Updates? August 16, 2015
Ex-Microsoft Designer Explains the Move Away From Metro (1)May 4, 2015
Microsoft’s New Middleware: Islandwood and Astoria (3)April 30, 2015
Turning Google Into a Dumb Pipe February 10, 2015
React Native February 2, 2015
We Love This Stuff Too, and Honor What You Do (4)January 8, 2015
2015: The Year of Android (5)December 21, 2014
Android vs. iOS Start Experience November 29, 2014
Using C++ to Deliver Microsoft Office Across Different Platforms (4)November 29, 2014
Android’s Audio Annoyances (1)November 3, 2014
Microsoft Band October 30, 2014
Phone Sizes (1)September 8, 2014
Kännsch August 24, 2014
Building a Business, Not an App (1)July 31, 2014
Why Smartphone Screens Are Getting Bigger July 22, 2014
The Majority Of Today’s App Businesses Are Not Sustainable July 22, 2014
A Closer Look at Android RunTime (ART) July 6, 2014
Still Yanking Pythonista Around (3)June 27, 2014
The History of Android June 17, 2014
Intents and Extensions June 13, 2014
How Dropbox Uses C++ for Cross-Platform iOS and Android Development (1)May 25, 2014
Cider: Native Execution of iOS Apps on Android May 14, 2014
Quantus Tasks (5)May 13, 2014
Lens Blur in the New Google Camera App April 18, 2014
The Five iOS Features Apple Is Claiming That Samsung (or Google) Stole April 2, 2014
Banned for Life (3)April 2, 2014
Apple’s Five Software Patents March 13, 2014
The App Stores Are Not “Long Tail” February 28, 2014
Software in 2014 January 24, 2014
Usage of Apple Maps and Google Maps (5)November 11, 2013
KitKat Storage Access Framework (1)November 6, 2013
Touchscreen Latency (1)September 23, 2013
Microsoft and Nokia September 4, 2013
Apple Prevents Android Lessons in Treehouse App (3)July 28, 2013
Dropbox Chooser, Saver, and Datastore (2)July 9, 2013
Why Mobile Web Apps Are Slow July 9, 2013
Common Misconceptions About Touch May 8, 2013
Apple: Unfortunately, No Longer the Underdog (1)April 15, 2013
Why Andy Switched to Android (5)March 6, 2013
Switching Back to iPhone December 24, 2012
Google Maps on iOS vs. Android December 13, 2012

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