Dan Luu

I have an HTC Evo 3D I'd love to let you borrow for latency testing, but I'd rather not lose it forever (it's a pretty unique piece of consumer hardware!). If I send it to your for latency testing, when you're done, any chance you could return it (I'd pay shipping)?

I appreciate the offer, but can I say maybe and get back to you later if the answer turns into a yes? I certainly wouldn't mind paying shipping, but I'm trying to avoid the hassle of mailing things back if at all possible.

As with each of these charts/stats that Apple and others like to publish: this also completely ignores Google Play Services which is a massive component of the Android security model. It's still a largely imperfect system, but leaving that out is unacceptable and amateurish.

This is definitely true, and full credit to Google for coming up with and implementing that system. But I still feel like it's a band-aid on a large, festering fragmentation-shaped wound.

Did some searches today, and basically any android device that gets monthly updates (there are a few) has about the same or higher depreciation cost as the iPhone X. Except a few old low-/mid-end LG.

Ahem.. Just found out that @Xiaomi is still building and releasing security bulletin updates for its Mi2s from April 2013. Costing about €250 back then. Well, that's cheap for depreciation cost. (About between a 4S and 5 in terms of core speed though)

I'm in favor of criminal case against the responsible parties. Millions of people running around with known insecure devices is not ok. It's a threat to economic stability.

Back when the people behind stagefright released a PoC, I was thinking: someone could make a self-propagating virus with this It is now 2017, my 2013 Android phone is still unpatched against it