You can make and install apps for Android phones without asking "Mother may I".

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

That, and the development tools are free. From http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/app-signing.html (emphasis mine):

The Android system requires that all installed applications be digitally signed with a certificate whose private key is held by the application's developer. The Android system uses the certificate as a means of identifying the author of an application and establishing trust relationships between applications. The certificate is not used to control which applications the user can install. The certificate does not need to be signed by a certificate authority: it is perfectly allowable, and typical, for Android applications to use self-signed certificates.

What a difference, uh? It's nice to know who the good guys are.

[digitaln3rd]

1. Amazing how that works, eh?

Amazing how that works, eh?

Companies are allowed to set up rules however they like and consumers have a choice about which to use.

It's shocking, I know.. right?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

3. That's why I seek to inform so people make a better choice.

Company X makes stupid anti-consumer rules. Company Y does not. Here's why. And people can make decisions based on that new information.

Amazing how that works, eh?

[MuseRider]

2. It is wonderful.

I am enjoying my Droid very much.

[nebenaube]

4. is currently building a box for this area of development.

Cygwin is being difficult to install tho.

[Lyric]

5. Can't wait to get mine someday.

:bounce:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

6. Never felt the need to buy more than dumbphones, but...

...I have just decided I will buy an Android phone in the short term. And start hacking on it.

Freedom, baby!

[superduperfarleft]

7. I love my Droid. I don't regret buying it over an iphone at all.

Once it gets flash fuctionality, I can't wait to rub hulu in the faces of all my friends with their iphones.

[PeaceNikki]

8. I want to marry my DROID and have its babies.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

9. Pics or it didn't happen. -nt

[The Straight Story]

10. Some people don't like having less choices. Sad thing is when they vote for the same (nt)

[TCJ70]

11. So is there a quality assurance process somewhere in there?

Or could I write an android app that steals everyones information with no oversight? Forgive me if I'm missing something here. I don't have any interest in app writing...but i do have an interest in the security of my device.

[The Straight Story]

12. Probably the same one you get when you try a new food somewhere

Although some people want others to tell them how it taste first.

Same people probably only see movies someone else reviewed for them as well.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

13. Or a new program on your PC. Or on your Macintosh, for that matter. -nt

[The Straight Story]

14. I don't download or try anything until my overlords and fundie family tells me it is 'Me' safe

:)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

15. You use Windows Me? Egads!

:silly:

[The Straight Story]

17. ROFL hell no :) I think HP Lovecraft's ghost had a hand in writing that thing

Still gives techs nightmares...

[TCJ70]

16. When i try a new food somewhere...

...I can usually go in with the idea that I won't be poisoned. Disappointment and data loss are fairly far apart in my mind...

[The Straight Story]

18. My X got food poisoning once at McD's, and

there is a difference between general regulations and forbidding people from getting porn on phones/etc.

Apple knows what is best for some, and they trust the apple people to make choices for them. Fine - that is their choice, I just think it is dumb.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

21. I got food poisoning exactly once. In a restaurant in an upper-class mall in a rich neighborhood.

Street vendors in poor neighborhoods? Never had a problem.

[PeaceNikki]

19. Every time you install an app, it tells you EXACTLY what it will access.

GPS, contact list, internet, etc. You have the option of allowing or not.

Driod doesn't patronize its users and understands that they can use open source and allow users to make it better and well, make decisions. Apple locks you into what it thinks is best for you. That's cool for some, but I prefer to go for open source.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

20. Kick for Freedom of Hacking -nt