If you read the OP carefully, you will find that it is an implicit announcement. Google hasn't announced it explicitly. But the amount of hard work and time that they have put in, takes them years ahead. The number 400 is open to discussion and interpretations.
Read some of the other comments to find out how it can be interpreted.
Internet, being the most widely reaching medium along with the ease of publishing, becomes quite attractive to anyone who hasn't got the means ( money/influence ) to get content published on more traditional mediums like Newspaper, Magazines and TV.
Hence you will find all kinds of material on the Internet including all kinds of hate speeches against all the religions, ideologies, personalities etc. Google being an indexer of Web would naturally present such material if you go looking for it. It's not Google's fault nor should it be its worry. After all, you can't really blame or shoot the messenger.
In a way, Internet has had more of a leveling effect on the kind of content and information that is available to common people in the world ( at least for those who have some kind of access to it ).
If for any bizarre reason, Internet starts to become more censor prone, it would loose its magical value. It is the most important invention of our times. It's somehow better if we don't have control over it. Just sit back and try to recollect the amazing pace with which it has changed and how beautifully it has sustained itself. It has a evolution path of its own.
The logic inside my head says that it was correct when Google removed the video from Libya/Egypt. But there is something in my heart that says that we would loose the innocence of Internet we go down this path too often.
Remember how reckless, carefree and full of possibilities we were when we were children. Then we came of age and learnt to how behave and think and do things like Adults. On the way, we somehow became ... well, just boring.
Remember, Internet is still a child. Hope we don't force it into becoming just another boring adult.
I am not an iPhone user, but if what you have described above are problems that a significant number of iPhone users face, then I am pretty surprised/disappointed.
All of these would be hampering user experience ( something Apple excels at ) irrespective of whether the user is a casual one or a heavy one.
Also, if these problems are easily reproducible and quite prevalent, isn't Apple solving these in upcoming upgrades?
In other words, they must be getting some kind of feedback/bug-reports and these problems should surely have to be part of that.
Wonder how RealTime it is? Encoding/Decoding of data/signal as per LTE specs is a multi-step process with lots of maths intensive operations.
Normally, custom made Baseband DSP processors are used for this kind of stuff which contain special HW Accelerators for this kind of intensive computing.
Would be really interesting to see how he has implemented it and how practical is it.
The list of reference books [1] on the site is quite formidable. Each book in that list deserves a lot of time to do justice to the content they have in them and the hard work/experience authors have put in.
Anyway, even if you start developing your own OS, you may not end up writing the whole of it all by yourself. Most people get a lot of help from outside and that is not at all bad, infact it has already proved itself to be the way to go by the open source Operating systems that are around today.
Here are some of the things that I do when noise around in the office starts distracting me:
1) Put on headphones and play music that I like.
2) If the work is really demanding, would need absolute concentration and that too for a long time, I prefer leaving office early in the day and come next morning at least 2-3 hours before others start filling in. Or sometimes, I come back to office after dinner.
For the last two years, I have been trying, on and off, to develop a few ideas into maturity. You can call these my side projects. I started out, thinking that taking 5-6 hours out from my weekends and a couple of hours per weekday, would do the job.
My day job is quite demanding in terms of hours and energy that I put in.
After around one year of trying hard to perform well in my day job, keep on developing my side projects and have a decent social life, I gave up. It was not working out. Time and again, I found myself, totally tired mentally and physically.
I couldn't understand what was it that I was doing wrong. Then time and again, I would hear stories of people who were successfully juggling day-job, side-projects and family life. I just did not get it and still don't.
Is there some kind of strategy that you have to follow? Is my time-management not good enough? Is something missing in my attitude? Or is it just plain luck, that things work out sometimes and other times they don't.
What if an app is able to collect all the relevant information about a subject and is able to produce a book. We arent very far away from that happening.
We could look at the OP's point and take it a bit further to ask, What are the biggest problems humanity faces today and how can software contribute and co-operate with other disciplines to tackle these problems?
Most of the problems, that humanity today faces are in some way or other linked to Geo-Politics, unequal distribution of resources/wealth/well-being among the world population, non-optimized consumption of natural resources and we are running out of them and so on and so forth.
So can software or software startups think about finding the problems they are trying to solve by taking into mind the global perspective? Or are they even willing to? I am not a startup guy and I don’t even have many friends in the community, so I am not in a position to answer this question, but I am sure others here can.
But problems alone can’t take up whole of the domain of human interest. So, the second part of the question, would be, what are the most interesting problems/technologies software could solve teaming up with other disciplines? I guess, many people are already working on such things, but the tech is still not mature enough or marketable enough, to be presented to the world, e.g. Google Xlab.
It is a great worry for me, that we have stopped looking out into the space with the kind of fascination that we used to.
Unfortunately, most of the world's wealth and technology is somehow taking (pushing) us to our own end. With Nuclear weapons seeing ever more proliferation and irreversible climate change knocking on our doors, I feel that we might just not end up with enough time to save ourselves from Mass extinction.
Perhaps it would be helpful for all, if you could specify what in your opinion is "real Work"? We're all here to share views and we could learn something from what is at the back of your mind.
I think Search engine services showed us the way, how one could provide an essential service as free and make money using more subtle ways .. Apps (developers) would have to go down that way eventually ..