"What's interesting though is that Germany is an industrial powerhouse compared to the US."
There are two reasons for that.
1. The US has the stuff she develops produced abroad (IT, Computer, Phones etc.), mainly due to tax reasons (Produce in China, sell to Hongkong, sell to the US, major mark up in HK is done tax free).
2. German companies don't not pay their engineers. You can make more as a dog walker in the US or an English teacher in China than as many engineers in Germany.
Yeah, peaceful economics far outweigh military. Military cant hire talent because talent can make more money building products for the world. It's a nice trend. Trump's anti-trade is screwing that up though.
They're both in the wrong. Epic for screwing it up and rushing rather than investing in security, and Google for trying to score PR points at the expense of their users. Google is being anti-secure here by not allowing the update to filter through the ecosystem.
> Google for trying to score PR points at the expense of their users.
Except this is how Google has always handled these bugs. The article even links to other examples involving other companies.
> Google is being anti-secure here by not allowing the update to filter through the ecosystem.
Or pro-secure here by telling users to urgently update rather than doing nothing and hoping nobody spots the bug and starts exploiting it before users get lucky.
If you are a hacker it is not improbable that you are keeping tabs on updates for high profile software like Fortnight. In that case, doing things "low-profike" gives bad actors an edge.
You mean google? You're right though, Google does a crap job auditing the playstore. It's ludicrous how they'll allow apps get access to everything on the phone without any kind of serious warning to the user.
My kids install all sorts of crap. I've warned them that all their texts and photos will end up on the internet because of it. Not highly probable, but certainly possible. Makes for a useful double check they're not texting anything silly.
>> It's clear to me, with all the rogue apps and crap in the Play Store that Google is not investing enough in managing app store content.
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>> Fortnite won this battle but in my book Apple will win the war.
> You mean google?
He's saying that Apple, is doing a much better job of "managing app store content" than Google, and so ultimately it doesn't matter if Fortnite or Apple wins this battle: they're fighting over a mound of rubble while Apple builds a castle.
> they're fighting over a mound of rubble while Apple builds a castle
It doesn't matter. Apple doesn't win in the end.
In the other Apple vs mound of rubble fight (Windows), Apple lost.
Android is doing the same thing. Android 4.0 was Windows 3.1 (first Android version to be "modern", IMO), Android 5.0 was Windows 95 (better UX). Android now just needs Windows XP to be stable enough (I'd argue Android 8.0 was that) and Windows 7 to cover the security aspects (most likely wide spread adoption of new Android permissions). But the writing is kind of on the wall, outside the US Android has majority market share and it's only going up.
I guess that usually seven days is more than enough for everyone to update to the latest version available on the Play store, however downloading a giant .apk file within seven days is an inconvenience for most users, which is why Epic requested 90.
