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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Kagi generated key points:

    • The new Find My Device network on Android was designed with a strong focus on user security and privacy.
    • The network uses a crowdsourced approach to locate lost or misplaced devices and belongings, even when they are offline.
    • The location data reported by participating Android devices is end-to-end encrypted, ensuring Google cannot access or use the location information.
    • The network has “aggregation by default” as a safety feature, requiring multiple nearby devices to detect a Bluetooth tag before reporting its location to the owner.
    • The network also has protections to avoid contributing location reports when near the user’s home address.
    • Rate limiting and throttling are used to prevent malicious real-time tracking, while still allowing the network to be useful for finding lost items.
    • The network is compliant with industry standards for unwanted tracking, triggering alerts on both Android and iOS devices.
    • Users have full control over which of their devices participate in the network and how.
    • The network design has undergone internal security testing and is part of Android’s vulnerability rewards program.
    • Prioritizing user safety and privacy is an ongoing commitment as the team continues to improve the Find My Device protections.




  • Kagi summary:

    • The Android Market (now Google Play Store) was launched in October 2008 with the T-Mobile G1 phone, helping establish app ecosystems on mobile.
    • Before app stores, finding and downloading apps was difficult through various online stores and carrier stores with limited selection and updates.
    • The Android Market centralized the app experience and discovery, giving access to a growing variety and number of apps in one place.
    • Early app successes helped drive more users, phones, developers and apps in a reinforcing cycle that grew the app economy exponentially.
    • Popular early apps filled gaps in Android’s capabilities in areas like weather, file management, flashlights as built-in features were still being developed.
    • Later apps brought extra abilities beyond necessities, like music streaming, ebooks, games, social media and more.
    • The article reminisces on the novelty of app stores and ecosystems in their early days compared to their ubiquitous presence today.
    • Over 100,000 apps were available by mid-2010 and over 3.5 million apps today on Google Play.
    • We now take app discovery, updates, and the overall app experience for granted due to how well app stores do their job.
    • The article credits the Android Market and Apple App Store for establishing apps as the norm and changing our expectations of mobile.

  • Google Messages.

    And yeah, I think it really has had that effect. Most people don’t know about it; I had to show my father how to set it up. They put a banner up on the app once when they introduce it, or when you first open Messages, but a ton of people just dismiss the banner and then don’t see it.

    Versus apple who has a big show where they show off all the new shit they’re doing, and the press breathlessly covers it, trickling it down to the average consumer.