Google Removes Vital Privacy Feature From Android, Claims Release Was Accidental

Re:Google Removes Vital Privacy Feature From Android, Claims... by kllrnohj on Friday December 13, 2013 @03:40PM (#6902781)

> If you put software into the wild - you have released it.

Even by that definition Google never released it. You needed a 3rd party app to access the feature, Google's software alone was not enough. Google didn't fail here, they flat out never released it.

Or perhaps you could argue that they failed by not releasing it (or something similar), but that's different story.

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Re:Google Removes Vital Privacy Feature From Android, Claims... by google666s on Friday December 13, 2013 @04:11PM (#6902945)

I would not argue your 2nd point. I did not read that you needed a third party utility to access this.

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Re:Google Removes Vital Privacy Feature From Android, Claims... by overgryphon on Saturday December 14, 2013 @12:18PM (#6906245)

So they released an unsupported publicly accessible API?

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