Guru returns from the Northeast Linux Fest.
Show Notes
- In Other News
- Google announces shutdown of Reader on July 1st. Feedly announces has an API clone ready, and gets half a million users in 48 hours.
- Platform News
- Google Play News may be the next content Google expands into.
- Google evicts ad-blocking software from Google Play.
- Apple’s marketing chief Phil Schiller claims Samsung Galaxy S4 will ship with an old version of Android. Phone ships with 4.2. Over 50% of iOS users are running the latest update. Easier when only one company is making the product and releases a new product on a set schedule.
- “Android is often given as a free replacement for a feature phone and the experience isn’t as good as an iPhone.”
- “When you take an Android device out of the box, you have to sign up to nine accounts with different vendors to get the experience iOS comes with, they don’t work seamlessly together.”
- Andy Rubin has stepped away from Android, and is taking another position at Google.
- Does Google’s leadership shuffle mean Chrome OS and Android are getting closer?
- App News
- Facebook updates outside of Play Store, users worry.
- Al Jazeera English App for Android Tablets now available. (Play Link)
- Mint updated, now supports automatic refresh
- Pocket Casts adds new dark theme, global playback options and more. (Play Link)
- LibreOffice close to release, but limits in development resources are slowing it. Looking for developer help.
- Swiftkey warns its users against pirated copies after site shows how to add a keylogger to the APK as an example of how pirated versions of apps can be dangerous.
- My Tracks updated with Drive Support, Better Support for Shared Tracks, and more. (Play Link)
- doubleTwist gets into the Streaming Radio business, offers $4 a month access to over 13 million songs. (Play Link)
- Stable Speed Library (Play Link)
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