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To: Golden Eagle
Google did the typical open source thing by trying to copy iOS with Android, and unleashed their hounds on Apple, and has so far seen it work with a lot of Androids being sold. It may be short lived however, as their open security model is already failing, and they're facing patent suits on multiple fronts now from not only Apple, Microsoft, and Oracle, but small timers who are winning their suits as well.

Uh oh, looks like Google's in trouble... so you're saying Android will likely... what? Fail? Be wiped out? Come on, you're man enough to spout the scary sounding ominous stuff, be man enough to go on record with what it means.

21 posted on 05/19/2011 7:28:07 PM PDT by MichiganMan (Oprah: Commercial Beef Agriculture=Bad, Commercial Chicken Agriculture=Good...Wait, WTF???)
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To: MichiganMan

It means if you’re using Android you might not only be using an operating system that has legal questions, but is turning out to be by far the least secure mobile platform out there. It’s also suffering from lots of bugs, from what I’ve heard from several friends who have tried it out. Things like it constantly making calls they don’t mean to, which I get from them all the time, it sometimes even making calls when it should actually be ringing with an incoming call instead. It’s become such a problem there’s even an app out there called Call Confirm to help stop it.

Is it such a disaster that it’s going to completely fail? Not at this point, too many are too far invested, especially Google. But the endless claims it is equal to iOS, in both security and stability, are now falling on many deaf ears. One of my friends even returned his Android after only 3 months, he’s a businessman and simply couldn’t stand all the random calls it made completely on its own. Considering all the reports since then about Android malware and lost passwords I’m sure he’s glad he did, too.


23 posted on 05/20/2011 6:49:40 AM PDT by Golden Eagle
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