Posted on 04/01/2016 12:15:43 AM PDT by Swordmaker
It may look like a simple calculator, but Google's latest Play Store upload signifies volumes about its changing approach to the Android platform.
It's all too easy to miss the forest for the trees.
This week's news surrounding a seemingly simple Android app launch is a perfect example. Maybe you heard: Google released a standalone Calculator app to the Play Store.
SAY WHAT? A new Calculator app?! Stop the presses! Whoop-dee-freakin'-doo, right?
Wait -- the app also adds native support for a smartwatch interface on Android Wear?! Okay, that's actually kinda neat. But it still isn't what makes this move important.
The move of Google's Calculator out of the operating system and into the Play Store represents something far grander for Android as a platform. It's a landmark moment in an effort we've been seeing unfold for almost six years now -- one that, with this latest step, is finally flirting with completion.
It's Google's deconstruction of Android as an operating system. And little by little, it's changing the way we think about what an "operating system" really means.
(Excerpt) Read more at computerworld.com ...
$10 Android phone? I need one to put in a house...hints please as to where to buy and how to set up camera...thx
Never mind...saw later posts
Net10 LG Optimus Fuel Android Prepaid Smartphone
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Net10-LG-Prepaid-Optimus-Fuel-Android-L34C-Smartphone/41277517
Is what freeper bobalou told me to get. I hate to pay shipping so you can have it sent free to your local walmart and pick it up at your convenience
Also found on ebay. bobalou uses them only on his local wifi network. They are never registered for real cellular/internet service
thanks
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