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It's all subjective but I love the new Gmail interfaces, Hangouts is much better than Talk and keeps getting better. Google+ photos is so much better than Pica
by ChrisClark 13y ago
It's all subjective but I love the new Gmail interfaces, Hangouts is much better than Talk and keeps getting better. Google+ photos is so much better than Picasa, I love how I can search for 'blue cars' in my photos and it returns them even though I've never tagged any of them.
Android has seen enormous improvements, I love stock 4.3 and Google Now.
Chrome's new 'native' apps wrapper-like thing is neat.
Even Youtube has improved a little bit, they've got a nice nifty ajax loader bar up top instead of refreshing the entire page when you go to another video.
But I guess with a different perspective, someone could argue how they don't like any of those changes. But for me, I love them.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoThe Hangouts experience on Android is an abomination. Its why I disabled (yes, fully disabled) Hangouts and switched to Whatsapp. Its that bad.
- gabriele 13y agoI double that. It's slow, clunky and unnecessarily heavy. That's why most of my contacts have already switched to other platforms. Talk for Android 4, that added support for multiple accounts, was just good enough.
- Keyframe 13y agoAt least you have hangouts. </wp>
- JTon 13y agoYes, agreed </BB10>
- patrickk 13y agoI'm using a poor internet connection (because of geography) and my experience is that the usability of Youtube has gone down dramatically. They made a change a while back where the video will only buffer a few seconds beyond where you've paused it. Previously, you could go a few seconds into the video, pause it, and let it buffer 100% in whatever quality you needed, now I find myself having to constantly pause the video to let it load. One workaround I was forced to use is TaperMonkey Chrome addon with a script that adds a download link underneath the Youtube video in Chrome. I download the video and watch it offline in perfect quality.
- lnanek2 13y agoAh, I was wondering why I kept leaving videos in tabs to buffer nowadays and they just never did it any more. Very sad day. ;/ Sucks for someone on a mobile connection 99% of the time like me.
- cma 13y agoThey've announced offline viewing for android recently which should help
- Semaphor 13y agoYouTube Center [1] allows you to disable Dash [2]. I had the same problem and worse, before I could autoplay 720p video but with Dash that didn't work. [1] https://github.com/YePpHa/YouTubeCenter/wiki https://github.com/YePpHa/YouTubeCenter/wiki [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Adaptive_Streaming_over_HTTP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Adaptive_Streaming_over...
- jlgreco 13y agoThe continuing problems with buffering on youtube have caused me to resort to youtube-dl/mplayer.
- tedunangst 13y agoYour comment about maps is dead, fyi. No idea why. I agree.