Google Posts Images, Binaries For New Nexus 7 80
In the wake of AOSP maintainer Jean-Baptiste Quéru's resignation, there was speculation that there would be no factory images or binary drivers released for Google's new Nexus 7 tablet. Happily, that's not the case — whatever other open source gaps there are in the Android world, Ars reports that those images and binaries have been released for the Nexus 7.
Re:Apple is EVIL (Score:2, Insightful)
Google and apple are evil on the same level. If you think either are better than th other you are fooling yourself.
Re:you know what they say: you cant trust google (Score:5, Insightful)
Oh why am I responding to this? Dumb I guess.
The whoie thing about Google devices and the AOSP is that people can get the source and make their own custom (filtered and examined) system load. And the reason many of us will use the Google devices at all is because of AOSP. AOSP gives us the chance to trust the platform a little more than we would if it were completely closed.
Now there are lots of binary blobs in this and that's disturbing enough, but at least it narrows down potential sources of any compromises of unwanted data movement and such. (And there are definitely people who are watching the data I/O from their devices. We've had some stories right here on Slashdot on that very topic.)
But the other thing I wanted to add to this is that while "the drama is over" the damage is still done. We lost a guy with much experience on the matter. (I don't know the guy personally. Was he good at his job? Don't know... but who is doing it now?)
Trusting Google is a hard thing to do. It's getting harder and harder. But trusitng Microsoft and Apple is even harder still. So there just aren't so many options.
Re:you know what they say: you cant trust google (Score:4, Insightful)
I have a tag in my car dock that turns on GPS, bluetooth and maxes screen brightness(It could set car mode, but I don't like it). Use it multiple times a day, but I guess that's not in the wild enough for some people.
Re:you know what they say: you cant trust google (Score:5, Insightful)
If Google was trustworthy we'd have the source for blobs and there wouldn't have been a delay in the first place
Google still doesn't own all that source. And you really can't expect the source to Google Apps themselves. You get source to everything you need to run the device, except for drivers. That's not up to Google.
I have my own concerns about Google but your objections aren't among them, because they are nonsensical.