The Management posted:

Rubin also ran the android project for the first half of its life at google. he was the guy who made all of the important decisions that made Android the pile of garbage it is today.

President Beep posted:

small bart

Endless Mike posted:

half an inch thick

Endless Mike posted:

the gray android thread is currently in the middle of a discussion about the amount of ram a phone they are interested in has

OldAlias posted:

lol. never had problems with my SE where I wished I had more ram, wtf are they using their phones for

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

i can't find it so just pretend i posted kirk_razor_meltdown.txt

Endless Mike posted:

nice meltdown

Toady posted:

even google wants to switch away from android

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-19/google-team-is-said-to-plot-android-successor-draw-skepticism

HoboMan posted:

agreed, im still rocking a

Midjack posted:

nate dogg said he was going to rock it until the wheels fell off.

OldAlias posted:

he’s loving his telephone?

Boiled Water posted:

source your quotes

Plank Walker posted:

Endless Mike posted:

waiting for godot 3q 2018

Doc Block posted:

u don't have to report back

Endless Mike posted:

imagine buying this instead of an ipad

Pinterest Mom posted:

I met a guy in his mid 20s this summer who was *dual wielding* blackberries

he had a blackberry passport, and a blackberry key 2

Pinterest Mom posted:

his job is "graduate student"

FMguru posted:

i.e. "unemployed", working on unlocking "unemployable"

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

lest they kill off scholar next

Dielectric posted:

Doubly so for hardware.

graph posted:

fun fact: scholar doesn't allow any aws ips to use its service

Sniep posted:

huawei though is confirmed for doing this poo poo, they literally are a spy agency of the chinese government

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

i really hope a third alternative does surface at some point

BangersInMyKnickers posted:

What was the name of that initiative where Google tried to get all the OEMs to commit to 3yr support cycles for all the phones they make only for them to give up on the initiative within 6 months? This was back in the 2.3 days

LastInLine posted:

this cant be real

qirex posted:

red's tacky rear end industrial design made so much more sense to me when I learned the founder used to be ceo of oakley

Sagebrush posted:

my sony android

The Management posted:

there is no money being made driving Uber. nobody is correctly assessing the wear and depreciation of their vehicle. on average an Uber driver drives 1 mile empty for ever mile with passenger. that’s doubling the costs for every passenger mile and cutting the pay in half.

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

you mean leasing a top of the line escalade and driving it for a pittance wasn't a savvy financial move? color me shocked.

infernal machines posted:

jesus WEP posted:

idk who that is

Sagebrush posted:

i don't know about the Big Game thing but here is his long-suffering wife's opinion on the matter

Astoundingly Ugly Baby posted:

So are there any good Android phones yet?

rapeface posted:

Yeah, I don't forsee it working for anyone without the best internet connection money can buy even with their 7500 edging locations and I wouldn't trust Google to see anything through anyway.


It goes beyond the other game streaming services, it's a dev platform supported by Unreal/Unity that lets you do cool things on the cloud. So instead of simulating multiple copies of a game that connects to a server, it's all there in a single, synced instance that can have really complex physics or whatever because there's no client-side calculation.

Split screen co-op wouldn't incur a performance penalty. Shareable game-states off a browser url, game invites off a url, video streaming can obviously been done from the cloud. I think this is unique, but tbh I haven't paid that much attention to game streaming.

Most of the coolest poo poo needs devs to start with developing on the cloud instead of just porting it so it's pretty unlikely, but just the fact everyone has a browser means the barrier to entry for a new player is lower than a flash game. Having a free triple AAA game demo available at a click in a browser and having it seamlessly transition into the full game because google knows all your credit card details might get studios to try it. Even if it's just a decent port, they announced Doom Eternal will be launching at 4k HDR 60 fps. For a college student without money to blow on a great computer, that's an awesome value proposition.

And here's a cool ML art prototyping thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUih5C5rOrA&t=3340s

Best Bi Geek Squid posted:

verge score: 10/10