darkevilmac

I'd guess because Google Play is a set of services that just use "Play" as a prefix.

Maybe the article is being vague but stuff like this really doesn't seem like it should be patented. Especially considering I'm pretty sure I've seen this done in games before. The simplest being Mario games giving you invincibility in a level after you die a set amount of times. Or I think A Hat in Time would shorten certain boss battle segments after you completed them already.

The implementation here would need to be really new and impressive to justify this being a patent. And I'm guessing it won't be, assuming they ever actually do something with it.

I don't know if I'd even call it cringe considering it seems so self aware. Dude was just making a silly video out of a stream clip.

If they function identically to a normal client though what's the issue? As an example Google indexes pages all over the web without the explicit permission of those websites, that requires them to read the page and make requests to someone else's infrastructure.

What part exactly here is illegal?

Apple isn't adopting RCS with encryption, and having iMessage as the default messaging app without any way to allow cross platform E2E encryption is a decision they've made.

As far as Google releasing a new chat app is concerned that's on them. But RCS has existed since 2008 and was included as a feature in Android 5.0 Lollipop all the way back in 2014.

Genuinely curious, what's the law against reverse engineering an API? I can maybe see the argument for charging for the service, but beeper mini is planning to integrate other services as well so I don't know if that'll really hold water.

Took long enough - at a certain point Nvidia's pricing just to get CUDA doesn't make sense when compared to the cost of just investing in ROCm and OneAPI.

All they had to do was find the right balance, but apparently they decided to see how much money the printer could make...

The real issue facing our society today is the lack of equal representation for jiggle physics for penis havers.

I like deluge personally - qbittorrent is my fallback though.

I'll have you know that the fake internet points are still here and I will continue to use them to determine my worth in the eyes of my peers.

They're all using Gentoo now.