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Earlier this week, Google announced a new experiment that lets Android users "stream" a select handful of apps through mobile search without downloading them. Apps that run without being installed? Didn't we call those viruses?
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There are plenty of legit apps that run without being formally installed. Doesn't make them a virus.
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Depends on whether or not the user give permission. I recall several 'legit' applications (you know, stuff that runs on a computer, not a phone) that behaved like a virus would.
It is a funny article to read though. Did you know you need Wi-Fi to access a cloud?BI wrote: Google makes this possible by letting the apps run remotely on virtual machines through its cloud platform. (You'll need to be connected to Wi-Fi for the process to work.)
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Apps that run without being installed? Didn't we call those viruses?
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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So, they re-invented websites?
Now please tell me that they use web techniques for the implementation.
Ciao,
luker
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I was under the impression that any sort of web development demands constant reinventing.
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Microsoft is betting on open source fork of .NET Framework to draw cloud customers Write once, run everywhere?
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One of the hackers suspected of being behind the TalkTalk breach, which led to the personal details of at least 150,000 people being stolen, used a vulnerability discovered two years before he was even born. It's all the fault of little Bobby DropTable
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Online ad networks and search engines love it when you surf around. +2 Cloak of Invisibility
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NodeOS lowers the bar for developers using a base foundation of JavaScript, Node.js, and Npm Because of course you want your OS to run in JavaScript
(Yeah, I know it's Linux under the covers, but it's still a boneheaded idea)
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IBM incorporated Identity Mixer, a cryptographic tool designed to handle authentication for third-party applications, into Bluemix I'm sure nothing entered will be shared with any government agency
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Without explanation, Microsoft has removed the just-released November update (version 1511) from the download page it offers to the general public. Nothing to download here, please move on (but you'll definitely want to download the next one)
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It's still on MSDN subscription downloads... 
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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http://www.computerworld.com/article/2970944/android/oracle-google-has-destroyed-the-market-for-java.html[^]
Until I read the following from the article, I didn't get it:
"Given the widespread dominance Android has achieved with its continued unauthorized use of the 37 Java API packages over the past few years, Android has now irreversibly destroyed Java's fundamental value proposition as a potential mobile device operating system," Oracle wrote.
In other words, Oracle is saying,
"Hey, you did what we wanted to do but you did it years before we were able to do it. Now we own Java and we are going to destroy you and Android if necessary so we can create our own Mobile OS which can compete against you. !@#$*!@% you, Android/Google!!"
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I thought they were saying:
Hey, you did what we wanted to do but you did it years before we were able to do it. Now we own Java and we want a big part of the benefits you are having with "our" technology, you !@#$*!@%
Your version implies more effort and resources that they don't have
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: we want a big part of the benefits
You are most certainly correct.
Laziness rules!
Just gimme the ca$h, okay. 
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If it turns out that Google is truly using the API's illegally doesn't that paint Google as the lazy one?
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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Not really. They didn't just use the APIs like a normal Java developer would. They copied the API declarations into the Android platform, then wrote their own implementation code.
EDIT: This would have created TONS of work for them, as the 37 APIs in question contain over 600 classes and over 6000 methods.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Colin Mullikin wrote: copied the API declarations into the Android platform, then wrote their own implementation code.
That statment makes me really side with Google, because it is more proof that Oracle is trying to sue them for using Oracle's idea. You cannot copyright or patent ideas. Ugh.
Besides the fact that Java was OS for an extremely long period of time and all of the gray areas that entails also.
The real problem I have with all of this is
1. these kind of lawsuits squash innovation
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From a software perspective, doing what Google did makes perfect sense. They wanted Java developers to be able to use the exact same classes and methods that they were already using when starting to develop for Android. Its much easier to convince developers to make apps for your platform if they don't have to relearn everything.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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I agree 100%! Great point.
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In older days that would even apply to the UI.
Nowadays it cannot be "new and improved" if it doesn't have a different color-scheme 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I read the comments here, I didn't read the article, and I'm no lawyer, but...
It seems to me that if person A has stolen something from company B, and company C later buys company B, company C can't now charge person A with theft.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: I'm no lawyer, but...
Good thing because you're wrong. When company C buys company B they assume all of company B's responsibilities and gain all of their rights. Including the right to protect IP. As Colin points out this is a very odd case due to Google's use of class names and such but not the actual implementations but legally Oracle has every right to pursue this as far as they'd like.
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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