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Re:Android On Lockdown: AT&T Removes Best Parts of Android f... by shareme on Monday March 08, 2010 @06:14PM (#1176794)
It really sucks from a developer perspective in that one of the major differences between iphone and android is that you could download an apk from non market sources and now they remove that choice from users grasp.
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Re:Android On Lockdown: AT&T Removes Best Parts of Android f... by jsz0 on Monday March 08, 2010 @07:33PM (#1177013)
It also sucks for developers that Motorola is still actively releasing new Android devices with such dated hardware. This is basically a glorified G1 (~500Mhz CPU, 256MB RAM) I'm not sure how that's going to play when we're very likely to see 1.5Ghz multi core CPUs with 4x+ as much RAM being released this year That's quite a big gap in specs between the low end and high end for brand new devices that are going to be in use 2 years from now and beyond.
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