waving android

I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.

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Konfab vs. Dashboard, part XVII

June 30th, 2004



Let the Darin
g Fireball narration
of Konfabulator vs.
Dashboard
. The shared concept, of course, dates back to the classic
Mac OS “desk accessories” and even terminate-and-stay-resident apps for
DOS. What’s news to me is the substantially different under-the-hood
implementation of K vs. D, and that really makes all the difference. It
still sucks to be Arlo Rose,
but then again, how long should any of us expect to have
exclusive rights to a good idea?

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