Shooti

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by Shooti 14y ago
If Chrome for Android is anything to go by it's not the screen, but Chrome's touch handling.
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by Shooti 14y ago
But what business sense does it make for Google to sell the data directly? You can only sell data once; targeted advertising can be sold over and over again.
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by Shooti 14y ago
I think it's because there was a sentiment among some reviewers (Anandtech/The Verge) that in spite of the remainder of Windows 8's flaws, there was actually some merit in having the touchscreen as an additional input type, to the extent th
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by Shooti 14y ago
According to David Pogue of the NYT who tried them on back in September the display is "invisible" unless you focus on it: "The biggest triumph — and to me, the biggest surprise — is that the tiny screen is completely invisible when you’re
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by Shooti 14y ago
On the contrary, Google Reader has barely any G+ in it. The major complaint of the redesign is that it stripped Reader of its social features without replacing it with anything. If G+ integration existed which provided the same use cases, p
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by Shooti 14y ago
The premise of the article seems to be that its not crucial for the dedicated social network portion of G+ to be a success if the features it enables within individual Google products get used.
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by Shooti 14y ago
Seems like it was WP7 performance that was the deciding factor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfTS1f8vqAo The mistake seems to have been not testing WP8 performance with the new IE engine before setting up a blanket block. Only the older
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by Shooti 14y ago
That shows it working fine on Windows Phone 8, not Windows Phone 7.X. Here's a video of a device running it on 7.X: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfTS1f8vqAo Practically unusable. Seems like they didn't test WP8 devices before making the
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by Shooti 14y ago
I'd be content if they added back the feed/folder autocomplete on the search box which was removed after the UI refresh.
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by Shooti 14y ago
Out of curiosity where are you getting the "way more user data" part? The WSJ/AllThingsD article which all the blog stories were derived from and is as close to definitive as we're going to get put it this way: "Sources tell AllThingsD that
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What’s the difference between SMS and a phone call?(plus.google.com)
1 points by Shooti 14y ago|0 comments
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by Shooti 14y ago
LTE as implemented on current gen SOC's actually has improved battery life VS 3G. Its the first-gen multiple radio variants like the Thunderbolt which gave LTE a bad rep in that regard.
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by Shooti 14y ago
Probably the situation with HTC's LTE patents which got Apple on the ropes: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-06/htc-patents-challen... Plus HTC's downward trend recently probably made the cross-license more palatable.
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by Shooti 14y ago
2011 called, it wants its 4S back.
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Why Android 4.2′s Multiple User Account Switching Is Tablet-Only (Hint: Patents)(techcrunch.com)
55 points by Shooti 14y ago|28 comments
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by Shooti 14y ago
The glass tilt I'm referring to is distinctive from the iOS bounce, yet it seems they're still erring on the side of caution.
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by Shooti 14y ago
Good news for Android scrolling if this sticks. This is probably whats keeping Google from implementing the "glass tilt" effect from the stock 4.0/4.1 home screen system wide.
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Anatomy of a Hoax (Sony Nexus phone)(anatomyofahoax.tumblr.com)
451 points by Shooti 14y ago|60 comments
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by Shooti 14y ago
You can also set it from "My Places" in Google Maps.
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by Shooti 14y ago
You've got it right, Voice Search and Google Now are separate entities living in the same Google search app. IIRC the keynote introduced it as something like "The New Google search = New UI + Voice Search + Google Now", so no contradiction
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Google Search Referrers Disappear In iOS 6(searchengineland.com)
153 points by Shooti 14y ago|48 comments
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by Shooti 14y ago
Plus they've since clarified that only the 97-2003 format is being dropped, export to 2003-2007 .doc .xls .ppt is still supported.
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by Shooti 14y ago
Also worth noting that the article has since been updated to clarify that it's only the 97-2003 format which has been dropped. Export to 2003-2007 .doc .xls and .ppt formats are still supported. Plus from the way it's phrased it seems like
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by Shooti 14y ago
"something totally unreasonable (like a patent agreement legitimizing Android)" Doesn't strike me as that unreasonable.
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by Shooti 14y ago
This was asked in one of the Google IO 2012 videos that was recorded, and their response is that it originally looked like an like a triangle to the left of the icon in Honeycomb, but nobody noticed it was there.
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by Shooti 14y ago
FWIW, they spell it out for "Devices with a hardware search key" in the official changelog: http://www.android.com/about/jelly-bean/
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by Shooti 14y ago
One factor could be that the prominent links into G+ across Google properties means that people are less prone to navigate into G+ via by with Google search as they would do for Facebook/Twiiter. Most peoples initial contact with it would'v