Android :: Class Action By Android Users Over Apple Forced Programmer Exclusivity?
Jul 3, 2010
Happy Fourth of July weekend to all the US folks here. Now, before I go on I just want to say I am not sue happy nor am I looking to make a bunch of lawyers a bunch of money.I am wondering if anyone has heard of any class action by Android users against Apple for its Programmer exclusivity policy. I am referring to the agreement that requires programmers only to write an app for Apple using Apple tools. I am not an apple hater. The reason I ask is that I have noticed there are quite a few event specific apps that are only available to the iPhone that just dropped (don't judge but the one I really wanted was the official Tour de France app as it started today)I feel that is safe to assume that the Official Android app is not yet available because of the aforementioned agreement that I believe most on here are aware of.ie: hurdles of not being allowed to cross platform develop forces developer to choose one store over the other. I know the FTC has started some investigating of Apple's policy for anti trust violations. I am just wondering if Android users as a consumer group can be proactive through litigation (sounds like such a dirty word *sigh*) to help end that policy.
I do not need my nice Evo 4g to be an iPhone. I like no dropped calls the ability to customize my pocket computer/phone as I see fit, but I am bothered knowing that when a new app is released that I want there is no way to get it because the developer has been FORCED to agree not to make it. (By only being allowed to use Apple supplied programmer tools).I understand the developer can make the app for Android using other tools, but for time sensitive events like sporting events most will not have the time or willingness to put out the capital to make both. Please do not turn this into another Apple sucks thread. I am just interested in exploring the legal option of Android users arguing they are negatively impacted by Apple's exclusivity policy.
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Sep 21, 2010
Samsung Mobile Phone GPS Defect Complaints - LieffCabraser.com Let They are looking into setting up a class action suit. I gave them my info. and experience online and signed up for their newsletter on this issue. Hope you do the same.
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Sep 20, 2010
There is a Law Office that is revving up a class action law suit against Samsung for the GPS issues. It may not ever get up and going but hopefully it will get Samsung in gear to push out an update.Samsung Mobile Phone GPS Defect ComplaintsLieffCabraser.com
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Mar 3, 2010
Samsung T959 for T-Mobile in the works? | T Mobile News & Phone Reviews From Cell Phone Signal.Can't imagine Samsung is going to put any time into developing for the Behold 2 when its replacement is right around the corner. My guess is a Memoir 2 running Android. Plus there is no way TMO will cannibalize sales of their first 2.1 phone (~$239) for a similar model selling for ~$50 (what the price is rumored to be for the Behold 2 when the the Cliq XT is released.
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Jul 13, 2010
Why don't we start a class action lawsuit for Eris owners? Here are some of the issues that I see all over the internet:
1) Verizon admits the problems to some, denies it to others.
2) HTC admits problems, but blames Verizon. Verizon admits it, but blames HTC.
3) Both parties blame either hardware or software, depending on who you talk to.
4) Customers keep getting sent refurbs with same issues, while few get phones without issues.
5) Some customers get to switch phones, some aren't given that opportunity. Some get to switch for free, others are told they have to purchase refurbs for $289. Some have even been allowed to have the Incredible, most have not.
6) Some customers even get new contracts.
There is no consistency with Customer Service, either in store or on the phone. I spoke with a rep 3 weeks that fully admitted Verizon knows this phone is a pile, and offered a replacement if the june 29th update didn't fix the issues. Well it didn't fix them and the guy today denies that there are any well known problems, that mine is an isolated issue and most customers love the Eris. He is sending Eris refurb number 2, the 3rd in total. Told me I could do that or buy a Droid refurb for $289. Didn't care at all if I chose to leave Verizon. There is clearly a problem with the Eris, everybody involved knows it. If enough of us band together, perhaps we can get a consistent, equitable resolution from Verizon. Who is up for starting a list of names?
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Jan 8, 2010
We are organizing a class action law suite for the failure of the Youtube app service and HTC/Verizon/Google doing nothing about it. Everyone paid for this app and function and this service interruption which is estimated to last for MONTHS will not go unpunished.This is currenlty affecting Eris users and maybe Sprint Hero users as well.
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Nov 2, 2010
Sprint Samsung Moment Data LockUp | Facebook
Also, i suggest people start filling out complaints here at the FCC:
FCC Consumer Complaints
SInce the moment can't dial 911 during lockup, it's in breach of FCC rules & regs.
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Nov 3, 2010
I want to show some notification when android phone is connected to system. I implemented BroadcastReceiver for listening to event android.intent.action.ACTION_UMS_CONNECTED in my application But it is not working. Is it possible to capture this event.
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Oct 31, 2010
I thought that Action was preeminent during intent resolution and if the intent had the same action as the intent filter, it would be considered a match regardless of data, if the filter did not specify anything. So I was very surprised to find that supplying action+data where filter had only action, causes it to fail. In the code below, if you comment out line 47 so that data is *not* sent, only then it resolves correctly. To get it to work with the data (an id that is simply a String), what mime type should I specify in the intent filter?
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Oct 19, 2009
How can I become a programmer?
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Sep 29, 2010
create or has in the past created an app for android. I have a very good idea, that ide like to put to work, and cannot do it because I dont know how. Also dont know if this is the right section really. If this works, or can work, it might revolutionize, lets say, Blackberry to Android and vice versa, messaging.
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Jun 24, 2010
I am looking for someone that can create an application to turn a droid into a hand-held video magnifier. www.iMagnifier.com gives you an idea.
The product would be a private label from Vision Helpers, www.VisionHelpers.com
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Sep 15, 2010
I would like to write a graphical application for an Android phone that displays a level bar, which changes depending on the phone's accelerometer sensor.Where would be the best place to get started in learning about writing programs for the Android? Specifically, I would need to know:
What programming language should I use?
What graphical toolkit would be quick for a new programmer to use?
Where should I look to find information about receiving accelerometer data?
What starter books on Android development would you recommend?
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Aug 3, 2009
It has been a while, but I am looking to see if any one knows how to write an app that will delete all messages that begin with "1010" Basically we get notified on our phones and all the messages begin with 1010, and it would be nice to be able to delete just those messages with out having to nuke all the other organisations...
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Apr 21, 2010
I'm a beginner in programming. My experience so far is only in Actionscript 2 and 3. So I have a basic understanding of declaring variables, loops, arrays, if/then, do/while... I'm wanting to move to developing for Android phones so I'm wondering what suggestions people have for where to go next. Should I jump right to Android? Start with a 'beginning Java' approach? Or should I go some other route to beef up my knowledge of OOP concepts before launching into Android? I have my Dev environment set up and completed the Hello Android tutorial and I'm just wondering if I am going to be in over my head quickly?
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Sep 15, 2010
I have one year of experience in programming. After getting laid off in cuts I managed to get a job in telecommunications planning. I'm good at my new job and don't want to leave it but I miss programming. I'd like to be able to code in my free time (which is about 4 hours every evening 7 days a week.)
I can code pretty well in C#, reasonably well in SQL and poorly in a unix shell.
What sort of job should I get on the side? Would anyone hire me as a free lancer? Should I focus on making apps for phones (android) instead?
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Dec 11, 2009
Anyone find a way to use their Eris as a modem for an Mac Apple laptop?
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Jul 7, 2010
I'm creating a new class, using eclipse "New Java Class" dialog box. I can write the superclass I want (I can't find using "browse" button), but I can't write or select an interface to implement. I click "add" but ther is nothing to select. What I'm doing wrong?
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Jul 14, 2010
I'm just getting into Android development, and I have a question about communicating between a receiver class and an activity class. I'm very new to JAVA and Android so I hope I don't sound too stupid. I'm developing an application where I intercept an SMS message and then based on various elements of that SMS I might delete it once it's been saved to the inbox. I have a receiver class that intercepts the txt message, and I am also able to delete messages from my inbox with code in the activity class using a button at the moment. The problem I have is communicating between the receiver class and the activity class where the code to delete a message resides. I tried putting that code directly into the receiver class but as I'm sure most of you already know the BroadcastReceiver class doesn't seem to support what I need to delete messages. I've been searching for an answer to this for a while, but haven't been able to find anything. Honestly I'm not sure I know enough about JAVA and Android to even recognize a solution if I saw it.
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Jun 27, 2010
What I want to do, is be able to access the object neoApi inside the Neoseeker class, from its inner class RunningTimer. Now, in my code, you can see what I would think to work, but when I run my application, nothing pops up. Nothing inside my TextView, no Toast, nothing at all. How can I remedy this?
package com.neoseeker.android.app;
import java.util.Timer;
import java.util.TimerTask;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.Notification;
import android.app.NotificationManager;
import android.app.PendingIntent;.......................
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Sep 8, 2010
I'm new to Java and android development. In my application I need data which is accessible for a few activities. I've read that a good solution is to use Application class for this. So I use it like this:
public class MyApplication extends Application {
private String str;
public String getStr(){
return str;
}
public void setStr(String s){
str = s;
}
}
and I can access this variable from activity like this:........................................
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Oct 8, 2010
I have just started android. I just want to know that how can i call activity class from other java class. i just want to pass class object to activity class.
public class GsonParser extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
MagazineThread thread=new MagazineThread();
thread.start();
}
public GsonParser(JsonMagazineParser Obj)
{
}
}
and i am just doing like from other class. GsonParser obj=new GsonParser(this);passing obj to activity class.how can i achieve that.
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Mar 23, 2010
Work pays for my phone and we are switching from Sprint to At&T. I just bought a Samsung Moment at the end of last year. I'm not real hip on getting an iPhone. It looks like I'm down to 2 choices: Nexus One and Motorola Backflip.So can you help me out here on pros and cons or what would work better for me? I don't know very much, or anything at all, about cell phones.
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Apr 23, 2010
In my app in one package there are some classes. from those classes i want to run one class that is the Gps functionality class. i want to run that class in background. how i do it, i don't know. i am not able to make it solve from any document. if anybody knows the way to solve it please me by run a "hello world" app in the background. i am not able to solve this problem by going through document.
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Jul 20, 2010
I'm building a small Android application, but this is more of a Java question than an android question. Looking through the tutorials there are lines that look like: startService(new Intent(this, MyService.class));
What exactly does the "MyService.class" field represent? Is that just a reference to the class for a template?
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May 19, 2009
I made a Dialog Class with it's view classI want to pop up the dialog when I got some packets from network. so I made a Thread which parses packets and then I made if clause in Run() method There is no problem with parsing packet but when I enter "if clause" and call showDialog() I got Error message
Is there anyone who knows how to pop up a dialog from different thread?
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Feb 24, 2010
I try to force the locale in my app to one the user specified. As this may be used to demonstrations, I want to change the language/locale in the app and not anytime for the whole device.
I looked around SO and tried to use every hint I found here. The result: I can restart my test activity with the new language, but if I change the orientation, the locale will always be reseted to the device one.
I uploaded a minimalistic project so you can reproduce my issue. Please ignore the shrinking of the UI, its not important :)
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Aug 14, 2010
I have a list, and I want 'Next' and 'Previous' buttons at the bottom of the list. I've tried to make the ListAdapter for the list something other than simple_list_item_1, but Android won't let me. I keep getting '... can't be resolved'.
Now, simple_list_item_1 is some kind of magical unicorn that is impossible to find, so I can't change it.
How can I put my buttons on the screen?
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Oct 4, 2010
Apple Airplay seems quite impressive and it is possible that it might gain some momentum. As an owner of both Android and Apple products I'm thinking that it would have been great if it was possible for Android devices to support the protocol to send/receive audio/video either trough the OS or an application. I suspect that there might be both legal and technical obstructions. What do you think - Will there be AirPlay support for Android?
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Feb 11, 2009
We all know about Apple asking Google to not include multi-touch but according to an Apple employee they also asked not to include the 3.5mm input due to an interesting patent. http://www.googleandblog.com/why-no-g1-35mm-headphone-jack/3750/
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