The great combined Smrtphone OS thread

[Sauron]

I've just updated my iphone 4 to ios 7 but now itunes wont recognise it. Any tips?
I've tried going to device manager to update the drivers like some discussion boards say but i cant find my ipod there :/

[MadMax]

Turn the iphone off n on. If still no good turn on while holding the home key till the apple logo shows. Failing all that, put the phone into recovery mode and restore it from scratch.

[mr selfdestruct]

Originally Posted by blur^

its the most used phone OS, so its the biggest target

Fully. Why would I waste my time trying to hack 20% of the market especially when that market share is shrinking every day? Waste of time.

[crocos]

Originally Posted by mr selfdestruct

Fully. Why would I waste my time trying to hack 20% of the market especially when that market share is shrinking every day? Waste of time.

Probably because the MONEY and thus the most valuable target, is (still) iOS.

Well... Unless you're trying to run a cellphone-based Botnet. Then Android is your tool of choice.

[Ab]

Android was never designed to be secure. It was designed to gain Google the allegiance of handset manufacturers and carriers in the quest to sell ads. Oh, I'm sorry, I meant "freedom".

[_Incubus_]

I'm sceptical of the botnet/malware stats thrown around...especially as a lot of these reports originate from SymantecKaspersky etc, who make money selling their anti virus programs.

The one credited with 29% of your stat requires you install a 'free' porn movie application from outside of the app store...you even get warned it might be malicious at time of install. Really easy trap to fall in to that one...

[mr selfdestruct]

Originally Posted by _Incubus_

I'm sceptical of the botnet/malware stats thrown around...especially as a lot of these reports originate from SymantecKaspersky etc, who make money selling their anti virus programs.

The one credited with 29% of your stat requires you install a 'free' porn movie application from outside of the app store...you even get warned it might be malicious at time of install. Really easy trap to fall in to that one...

Mmm a compelling stat Inc.

So what you're trying to say is that iOS is locked down tighter than a 14th century nunnery so that this shit could never happen but Android is not as locked down so that this shit COULD still happen IF you're a garden variety retard, which sadly most people are. It basically sounds like the same argument we all have daily with anyone that says, 'my computer got a virus' and we all proudly say, 'i dont use anti virus software because i know how to use the internet, n00b'.

[Ab]

Android team lead Sundar Pichai: "We cannot guarantee that Android is designed to be safe, the format was designed to give more freedom. "

http://www.idownloadblog.com/2014/02...roid-not-safe/

[Ab]

More news from the wonderful world of Android:

Samsung Galaxy devices contain backdoor

more info: http://www.neowin.net/news/samsung-g...adwrite-access

[_Incubus_]

Originally Posted by Ab

Android team lead Sundar Pichai: "We cannot guarantee that Android is designed to be safe, the format was designed to give more freedom. "

http://www.idownloadblog.com/2014/02...roid-not-safe/

From the same article...

"Which isn’t saying Apple’s devices are immune to security vulnerabilities.

They are not.

A nasty SSL bug discovered last week made all iOS devices and Macs vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. A few days later, Apple issued a crytical security patch via OS X Mavericks 10.9.2, iOS 7.0.6/6.1.6 and Apple TV 6.0.2 software updates.

Responding to the security scare, 13.3 percent of active iOS devices in the wild were spotted running iOS 7.0.6 just 48 hours after its release, ad network Chitika noted. Two days later, the adoption figure has risen to 26 percent of total iOS-based North American web traffic, a cool thirteen percentage point increase."

Still leaves a lot of vulnerable hipsters out there wandering around with a potential time bomb in their skinny leg jeans.....

[Ab]

No device is immune to security vulnerabilities, we all know that. But at least you know a security bug in iOS will actually get a fix when discovered

[Ab]

[Ab]

lawl

We spoke to a rep for Samsung who essentially told us the company scrambled the jets to remedy the problem that blasted to LeBron's 12 MILLION followers.

"We are following the situation," the rep tells us ... "We have a team looking into it. There should be more information soon."

[pxpx]

iPhone 5S it is then.

[Waldo]

Originally Posted by Ab

if only there was a way to backup electronic devices....

[Savage]

Wonder if he flashed that QR code ...

[^BITES^]

Originally Posted by Ab

No device is immune to security vulnerabilities, we all know that. But at least you know a security bug in iOS will actually get a fix when discovered

BAHAHAHAAHAHAH

Fuck you're funny Ab.

[mr selfdestruct]

Someone forgot to tell LeBron that all his shit is probably backed up in the cloud.

[MadMax]

How do android backups tend to work? The few I've set up seem to be based on an offering by the phones manufacturer rather than say a complete service by google. This is fine if you keep using say samsung - but you're screwed if you change to a Motorola?

And what's the experience like? I know the setup is god-awful as you have to create two accounts if you don't already have a google account, unlike with ios -- you get the exact phone back in you hands after signing in on a new one. You can even restore an iPad from an iphone backup where it downloads all your apps and stuff.

[mpx]

All my contacts, texts and stuff were moved from the S3 to the Nexus 5 when I had it with relative ease, everything else was already synced to my Google account and just started downloading when I was connected to WiFi. Didn't really lose anything apart from music I had manually put on the phone (which I never used any more since Spotify)

[CCS]

Originally Posted by MadMax

How do android backups tend to work? The few I've set up seem to be based on an offering by the phones manufacturer rather than say a complete service by google. This is fine if you keep using say samsung - but you're screwed if you change to a Motorola?

And what's the experience like? I know the setup is god-awful as you have to create two accounts if you don't already have a google account, unlike with ios -- you get the exact phone back in you hands after signing in on a new one. You can even restore an iPad from an iphone backup where it downloads all your apps and stuff.

Everything in this post is wrong. Christ. Stop being wrong and dumb.

[mpx]

I didn't read the last paragraph, if your setup was god awful then you must've done something horrendously wrong. You literally turn it on, sign in and your shit starts downloading, how can you mess up three steps?

[CCS]

That moron thinks you need two accounts for some reason. Maybe he thinks you need a separate google account for each device? Holy shit that guy is a mong.

[MadMax]

It wasn't messed up as I haven't had to do a restore for someone - hence why I'm asking what it's like.

Thought I made it clear - a google account needs to be created along with another account from the manufacturer. Of course contacts are a given.

[CCS]

So wrong.

[blur^]

Originally Posted by MadMax

It wasn't messed up as I haven't had to do a restore for someone - hence why I'm asking what it's like.

Thought I made it clear - a google account needs to be created along with another account from the manufacturer. Of course contacts are a given.

only if you want to sign up for samsung apps or whatever lol touchwiz

google sync backs up everything, one google account for any google device you own

[mpx]

Yeah I've never used my account for anything Samsung and I have a Samsung phone, only Google (which I already had).

So the next gen Androids are looking pretty good.

Xperia Z2
HTC One M8
Oppo somethingsomething
LG G3

Now if only one of them would make their phones SMALLER, not bigger.

[MadMax]

Originally Posted by blur^

only if you want to sign up for samsung apps or whatever lol touchwiz

google sync backs up everything, one google account for any google device you own

i'll have to screen shot the setup or something next time. the wizard stated it needed some other account created so that the phone could be backed up. *shrug*. can't even remember what phone it was now, was a ~ $1000 model ... S5 iirc

[CCS]

umm... sounds optional.

[mr selfdestruct]

HTC One M8 - rofl

[CCS]

Steve Jobs sobbed in the wake of Antennagate

Of course he did. Faget.

Second, Johnson recalls how emotional Jobs became in the wake of the Antennagate saga.

Jobs, Johnson explained, was beyond sad and angry about the issue and how it was getting portrayed in the media. With Apple's core leadership team, along with the company's product and marketing teams sitting around a boardroom table, Jobs pounded the table saying, "This is not the company I want to be, this is not what we are building. We don't want to be that company, we don't want people to think about us this way."

Should've made a better phone, dick.


Abner will fap himself silly over this though:

Indeed, a common theme put forth by Johnson was that Apple's marketing department was primarily concerned with educating consumers and showing prospective buyers what they can do with the product.
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Using the iPhone as an example, Johnson explains that there were any number of different advertising angles the company could have pursued for such a revolutionary device. Nonetheless, they chose to focus on just three things; that the iPhone was a phone, an iPod, and the Internet in your pocket.

[Ab]

Brutal article in TC today.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/06/the...android-first/

In late 2012, we decided to launch Emu on Android first. It went against the conventional wisdom at the time, but we saw a real advantage.

How'd that work out for you?

Sixteen months later, we’re back on iOS (...) and we’ve pulled Emu for Android out of the Play Store.

Even when you don’t support older Android versions, fragmentation is a huge drain on resources.

Google’s tools and documentation are less advanced, and less stable, than Apple’s.

Android’s larger install base doesn’t translate into a larger addressable market.

We’ll never know how things would have gone had we stuck with iPhone from the beginning. But here’s my guess: we would have launched our beta in April (not July) and our 1.0 in August (not October). We’d be building more functionality in less time. Our UX would be more polished, we’d have fewer bugs, and our addressable market would actually be larger.

[MadMax]

naahhhh their programmers are just too derp

[sidbo]

cf Whatsapp

How'd that work out for them?

[Ab]

A strategy of focusing on iOS (Whatsapp for iOS: August 2009) before thinking about Android (Whatsapp for Android: September 2010) seems to have worked out pretty well for them. Actually the initial release described Whatsapp as an "iPhone-to-iPhone chat application".

[sidbo]

I had always believed that whatsapp tried and failed to get their app out on ios and that android was their first platform, ios was available after that.

If I'm wrong, then my bad and I'll retire with whatever shred of dignity I have left.

[Ab]

Hell, I think Whatsapp did a client for Symbian AND a client for Blackberry before they did Android.

[Ab]

I think we've hit peak android here

http://www.neowin.net/news/the-1-pai...-complete-scam

[Trigger]

HAHAHAHA that is fucken gold

[Lightspeed]

So what's the scrub-tier android of choice these days? Thinking of something in the $400-600 range.