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on Wednesday October 04 2017, @08:14PM
from the all-your-google-are-belong-to-us dept.
from the all-your-google-are-belong-to-us dept.
Google is biting off a big piece of device manufacturer HTC for $1.1 billion to expand its efforts to build phones, speakers, and other gadgets equipped with its arsenal of digital services.
It's buying the HTC engineering team that built the Pixel smartphone for Google in a cash deal, the companies said in a joint statement Thursday. Google is also getting a non-exclusive license for Taiwan-based HTC's intellectual property to help support Pixel phones.
The deal underscores how serious Google is becoming about designing its own family of devices to compete against Apple and Amazon in a high-stakes battle to become the technological hub of people's lives.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 04 2017, @09:20PM (5 children)
Put your money and effort behind projects like RISC-V, and help build an ecosystem around open hardware and software. That is the only way that future generations won't have to beg for technological crumbs under the table of the powers-that-be.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 04 2017, @09:33PM (2 children)
And when no telecom will allow your open hardware to work on their network?? That is how I foresee open computers getting shut down, "what no secure ident chip(tm)?? sorry no data for you!"
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 04 2017, @09:57PM
People need to come up with alternative strategies to passing data around. There's got to be an alternative network that can established, based on different or existing technology, possibly routable via mesh-networking, etc.
Unless you put your minds to solving such issues, they won't ever get solved. Quit just saying "Oh, well! I guess we're at the mercy of the Corps!" Start putting your mind to the task.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday October 04 2017, @10:05PM
As long as there is tethering, you can use the official phone just as mobile router (with a VPN or TOR to hide the actual traffic). With that being its only function, frequent phone swapping can be used to obscure identities.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday October 04 2017, @10:49PM (1 child)
I think you're right.
How do we set up an open network for connectivity, though, citizen-launched satellites?
Ad hoc mesh networks are one idea, but the latency is an issue.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 05 2017, @07:33PM
Why can't new neighborhoods build a fiberoptic LAN for itself, and the multiple such neighborhoods could connect to each other via visible laser towers, etc., and then the same between nearby cities. The Web should probably be re-organized in the distributed way, too, with multiple copies of website data being pushed as close to users as possible.