EffortlessSteven - Executive Strategy and Product Design Insights

The common understanding is that since AOSP is open source, Huawei cannot be blocked from using it. I am here to tell you that, unfortunately, is not true.

Too much hype can be problematic, but so can a lack of it. We take a look at how lag time between reveal and release destroys public public interest.

OnePlus and Meizu have been caught cheating on benchmarks. XDA investigates how it happened, and what can be done to prevent it from happening again.

I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with Google Now's voice commands (or rather Google Assistant as it is now called). I love the idea of what it will be able to do one day, and I love what it can do when it works. If it works. And therein lies the hate. That

Facebook just announced Facebook Messenger Lite, a new low-resource version of Facebook Messenger (much to the disdain of the developers of Lite Messenger for Facebook), joining Facebook Lite in their portfolio. Facebook Messenger Lite is a cut down version of Facebook Messenger, weighing in at under 10 MB. It is designed to be fast to

Allo and Duo introduce more messaging applications to contact your friends through. Do we need more fracturing, and are its features worth the trouble?

Google announces Flutter 1.5 at I/O 2019, expanding its cross-platform UI toolkit to support web, embedded systems, and desktop applications beyond mobile.

One of the major issues for Android over the years has been device fragmentation. The Android version and Linux kernel version a device are on can have a massive impact on the device's security and usability, and Google is making a concerted effort to improve Android's update lifecycle with Project Treble.

Google announces new Android Jetpack libraries at I/O 2019, including CameraX for simplified camera development and Biometrics Prompt for easy biometric authentication.

Keep your code monster under control with xchecker: a Frankenstein spec harness that stitches Rust safety to LLM creativity in an auditable flow.

PAG is a flow-scoped context pattern where a harness—request routing, analyzers, and a packet builder—decides what an LLM sees. Unlike auto-context that heuristically grabs nearby files, PAG uses a curated spec-first library with deterministic rules and auditable receipts to reduce AI hallucination and prevent Process Confabulation.

We reached out to Sony to try to learn a bit more about the IMX378 sensor that is used by the upcoming Google Pixel and Pixel XL phones. Learn all about it!