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Google Starts Counting Android Activations Based On A User Visit To Its Play Store
Google has made a small but telling change to how it reports Android activation data for the benefit of its developer community, switching from reporting device activation based on a general or background check-in to its activation servers to — starting this month — counting only those devices where a user visits its Play Store. Read More
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Chinese Ministry Critical Of Android’s Dominance — But How Much Power Does Google Really Have In China?
China’s technology Ministry has criticised the dominance of Google’s Android platform, according to Reuters. “Our country’s mobile operating system research and development is too dependent on Android. While the Android system is open source, the core technology and technology roadmap is strictly controlled by Google,” a Ministry whitepaper states. Read More
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Pops Is Android Notifications On Steroids – Get Ready To Love To Hate
Humanity has poor taste. Correction: The worst. For proof, look no further than the person sitting next to you … That’s right, wait until their phone rings and blasts the latest Shakira mega-hit (Full respect to bf Gerard Piqué. Visca Barça!). Coupled with humanity’s bad taste, is humanity’s uncountable urge to spend money on said bad taste, and in the case here… Read More
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Android OS Distribution Chart Updated, Inches Slowly In Right Direction
Google has just updated the pie chart on its Android Developers site that shows just how many Android users are running each version of the mobile OS. The latest stats: 32.4% of users are on the most recent version, Android 2.1. That’s a rise of 5.1 percentage points since mid-April. But the bulk of users are still running earlier versions — 29.4% are on 1.6, and 37.2% are… Read More
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