Shooti

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by Shooti 14y ago
Given its a extension for universal access to the G+ notification count, people who go out of there way to install this and keep it have not only bought into the notion of the G+ stream, but like it enough that they want more convenient acc
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by Shooti 14y ago
Schmidt joined the Apple board 4 months before the iPhone's public unveiling: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2006/08/29Google-CEO-Dr-Eric... Not much of a heads up.
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by Shooti 14y ago
With regards to 3), yes it does affect it since a "flexible/malleable no" is an altogether different constraint from a "solid no", so the solution would be measured against a different yardstick in the former case. Pressing on with your own
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by Shooti 14y ago
A request for clarification on why they refused was posed to a Chrome engineer in todays Blink Q&A ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlJob8K_OwE#t=13m34s ), and according to him the request for integration came shortly after Chrome was r
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Your Blink Questions Answered [video](plus.google.com)
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by Shooti 14y ago
It's perfectly possible. They're doing it by setting the window type as TYPE_SYSTEM_ALERT, and then switching it to TYPE_SYSTEM_OVERLAY as needed. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/WindowMa...
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by Shooti 14y ago
FWIW activating "Stacked tabs" in Chrome://flags resolves this by switching to the tablet implementation which doesn't shrink the tabs.
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by Shooti 14y ago
It's been confirmed that it has a blinking red light when it enters record mode. Doesn't make your point any less valid though since its the perception that counts. It'll be interesting to see if it can get over that wall.
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by Shooti 14y ago
I think the rule of thumb is that any old product which doesn't firmly belong to one of the 5 units (Search/Knowledge, Chrome/Android/Google Apps, Identity/Google+, Advertising/Commerce and Youtube/Video) created after Page's 2011 company r
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by Shooti 14y ago
Judging from the Techcrunch leak at the start of the month( http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/04/google-is-building-a-same-d... ) this product belongs to the new Advertising & Commerce unit which was formed when the Maps and Commerce unit w
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by Shooti 14y ago
Remote trackpad for Glass? Seems that would be more convenient/accessible than using a trackpad on the side of your head.
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Another reason Google Reader died: Privacy and Compliance(allthingsd.com)
10 points by Shooti 14y ago|0 comments
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by Shooti 14y ago
> You are missing the point. Google Reader was also an API. A hacked up, reverse-engineered API. Since it was never official they haven't actually broken any promises.
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by Shooti 14y ago
One counter-point is that the accessibility of Reader due to its presence Google ecosystem also grew the global user base of RSS aggregators. Which is to say its not a given that those using RSS through Google Reader would be using RSS at
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by Shooti 14y ago
Not sure why Google would block themselves server-side if they themselves wanted the current iOS 6 account-sync set up to continue. Apple doesn't really factor into it at all. Google breaking off into their own Calendar app is a possibility
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by Shooti 14y ago
Where are you getting that they dropped Google Apps Activesync support for Outlook 2013? A search brought up the main support page which says its upcoming (Under "OS and Microsoft Outlook® requirements"): http://support.google.com/a/bin/an
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by Shooti 14y ago
CalDav is what the iOS Add Account option for Google uses to sync: http://support.google.com/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&a... Seems unlikely they'll drop it given their approach to iOS so far has been to infiltrate the ecosystem with
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by Shooti 14y ago
Read the article again. Windows 8/RT isn't the same as Windows Phone (which Google confirmed in the article has been whitelisted). The source of that is the Windows team deciding not to add CardDav/CalDav support to the Metro-style Mail and
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by Shooti 14y ago
Seems practically a given that Apple iCal and iOS will be whitelisted by Google as clients. Even Windows Phone 8 has that confirmed: http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/15/google-caldav-support-sti...
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by Shooti 14y ago
They're not dropping CalDav, they're just going to start screening its access: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19gOLSlkTzHi-zub3BkMv7Ot0JML...
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by Shooti 14y ago
The difference is Drive is a flagship "L-team" product, so it's pretty much on equal standing to Google+ in terms of priority. When Larry Page took the helm he created 7 core focus areas + accompanying SVP's (A nice summary: http://tech.fo
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by Shooti 14y ago
FWIW CalDAV wasn't "retired" they're just going to start screening its use: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19gOLSlkTzHi-zub3BkMv7Ot0JML...
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by Shooti 14y ago
Presumably a product conceived post-G+ will be explicitly designed to add value to the overall G+ strategy, so has less chance of getting to the point of being shut down. Google Reader on the other hand was conceived in 2005 when Google was
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Chief Architect of Google+ requests clarification on Google Reader(plus.google.com)
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by Shooti 14y ago
Android is open. Google Play is closed.
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by Shooti 14y ago
FWIW Google Reader never had an official API, just a hacked up reverse-engineered unofficial API which everyone took to using.
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by Shooti 14y ago
Android SDK was announced November 2007: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FJHYqE0RDg
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by Shooti 14y ago
You have to reach some Google-controlled threshold of app quality before you can use it, according to this: https://developers.google.com/+/features/play-installs
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by Shooti 14y ago
The UI Overview Slashgear wrote up via a leaker( http://www.slashgear.com/google-glass-in-focus-ui-apps-more-... ) says that the swipe down gesture on the touchpad takes you up a level within the UI, and swiping down at the topmost level tu
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by Shooti 14y ago
According to Business Insider they broke an embargo: http://www.businessinsider.com/hang-oncnet-just-pulled-this-...

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