• Reports suggest Glance is preparing to debut in the U.S. “later this year” following its pilot program with Motorola and Verizon.
  • Sources state Glance will not capture data, but will instead leverage a user’s “patterns” to offer recommendations.
  • Glance states it will not show ads in the U.S., opting for news stories, and it will look to offer a subscription service for "premium news
    • ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      The first paragraph refers to it as “Google-backed Indian startup Glance”. It’s not part of Android, but Google is involved

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        They back a lot of stuff, doesn’t mean they’ll implement it into Android. If it’s not open source, they can’t make it part of Android anyway.

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        A company investing in a startup does not mean they are “involved” in any way.

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          The company that is programming the operating system is investing in a company that makes malware for said operating system. How they can’t be considered involved? Once they invested the $140 million, they would be less likely to consider that malware as such. They won’t block that malware with Google play protect, ignore the privacy issues that would lead to a ban on the play store, and so on.

          Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t don’t see Apple investing even a dollar on a company that is making malware for iPhones

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          An investor in a company will push to make that company gain market share. As we can see here.