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Hassabis: DeepMind makes edge models open because on-device models are vulnerable anyway
“For now, what we've decided is that our edge models, the things we want to use for Android, and glasses, and robotics it's best that they're open models. Because they're vulnerable anyway on the, once you put them out on the surfaces, so they might as well be …”
Doctorow: Reverse-engineering iOS for cross-platform compatibility triggers legal thickets
“So today, if you were to try and do this, like say you were to try and make Android devices first class citizens in on iOS environment, and in order to do so, you wanted to reverse engineer iOS and allow yourself to sideload in apps into iOS and also to suppor…”
Sparks: Government Cannot Force Apple to Decrypt Data, Android Is Less Secure
“They can't make Apple decrypt what you've got. If you've got an Android phone, you're much less well off.”
Hu: Writing computer vision algorithms in C++ enables seamless mobile-to-server migration
“It's a lot more efficient for us to write the code and all of the algorithms once, and then cross-compile it across all the architectures for Android or iOS, and even the backend, so that we run some of the CV algorithms, we could prototype it in the phone, an…”
Schwartz: Google grew Korean search share via Samsung and LG ties
“What Google used to not be dominant in In Korea, and they've been increasing dominance through their Trojan horse of Android. So Google's obviously very closely partnered with Samsung and LG, Korean companies. And as Korean users use these products, they use G…”
Segment open-sources client SDKs but keeps its core data pipeline proprietary
“Our JavaScript library is open source, our iOS SDK is open source, our Android SDK is open source, so you can sort of collect data from anywhere, and those collection libraries are open source, but the sort of core infrastructure pipeline is, is not.”