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by barista 14y ago
Wow. Didn't know Google translate didn't have this feature until now. That is something Bing on Windows phone could do for almost a year now... Nice feature. Useful if you travel a lot.
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by barista 14y ago
you aren't?
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by barista 14y ago
Out of the billion people who use Google how many do you think know about this and will remember to do this every time?
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by barista 14y ago
or just use DDG
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by barista 14y ago
>Will Google rank negative information about my favorite Congressional candidate lower in its search results Google already has the content it needs to do that and does not have to tell you that it's using it.
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by barista 14y ago
I think the concern with clearing all cookies is not simply to not see the personalized results but that the cookies are actually tracking the person's usage. Google in recent times has gotten so creepy that I never stay logged in. Same wit
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by barista 14y ago
>you still need to commit entirely to one ecosystem I don't know why you said that. Skydrive API at least are available to most popular platforms it seems.
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by barista 14y ago
are you confusing neutrality with it being a web app? What part of the above things you could not do with say skydrive? Basically I don't see a difference between dropbox and skydrive (or gdrive or....) as a developer, if I had to choose, I
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by barista 14y ago
People often tend to forget that storage as offered by the likes of dropbox is not a product, its just a feature that makes a product better. With deep app platform integration that iOS, Windows have brought in, there will be less and less
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by barista 14y ago
Asking genuinely... What benefit does yet another marketplace have to offer? I can see that by being a cross platform marketplace, If I buy something from them on my iPad, I can also use that same software on my PC (assuming both the platfo
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by barista 14y ago
The feature no doubt is helpful but is there a reason to not expose this feature via something like Google Desktop and to store the index locally?
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by barista 14y ago
What is different is that you are intentionally spying on your friend if you did that. Here, your friend is unintentionally revealing contents of his inbox to you.
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by barista 14y ago
You do know that the "free users" are actually the product that Google sells to advertisers? The more "free users" there are, the more money Google makes.
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by barista 14y ago
Good for you. I bet majority of non-tech savvy people don't do this or even know how to do this
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by barista 14y ago
...or a different search engine
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by barista 14y ago
I thought Google's goal was to be as creepy as possible but not creepier?
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by barista 14y ago
HTC was one of the first to manufacture smartphones. Their old windows phones were nice but the new HTC surround and a couple other android phones too don't really stand out.
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by barista 14y ago
I think Microsoft understands this and that is probably the motivation behind the keyboard cover.
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by barista 14y ago
Did you forget that they are not bundled and you actually have to pay for it? Office is built in for free with Surface.
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by barista 14y ago
Both touchpad and playbook failed because the platform ecosystem failed. You are equating Surface the device to Windows the platform ecosystem. One is unproven the other has been the most vibrant platform there ever has been.
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by barista 14y ago
It's not the device its the software, the platform. Surface is just a device. Maybe it will succeed, may be it will fail but windows as a platform has been there an will be there as long as Microsoft is around. An app for surface is not lim
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by barista 14y ago
You probably are in the minority, but I feel frustrated that there are no decent office like apps available on the tablets. There is a reason why, apple wants iPad to primarily be a consumption device. Office apps are not on top of their li
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by barista 14y ago
Also to consider is that Surface already comes with Office and other apps built in. I'd certainly pay more to get those apps on my tablet.
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by barista 14y ago
So did the zunes that people bought stopped working after Microsoft said it was no longer selling any? Portable devices like these don't have a lifespan beyond 4-5 years these days and a company stopping hardware sales has nothing to do wit
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by barista 14y ago
Metro is not even out for desktop in its final form and you seem to have accumulated a lot of opinions on it already. :) It is different than what people are used to so people are bound to have polarizing views on it. If you have been follo
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by barista 14y ago
I agree that the large displays are suboptimal for metro but the problem is not that you have a high resolution screen but the 30" size of it. I am going to bet that you are in a very small percentage of users who have such a large screen d
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by barista 14y ago
When computers transitioned from command line to GUI, it seemed odd too. Too many times you were required to type commands to start gui programs and were pretty much working inside the command shell to get any real work done. But that chang
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by barista 14y ago
Don't know what you mean by "interacts horribly with VMware" but people who care about that is probably a small demographic given the target market of Windows. Also the cheaper feel of laptops was a valid argument a few years ago but since
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by barista 14y ago
What credibility a promoter of a failed kickstarter would have if they launched a useless hardware product that over-promised and under-delived? Would Google want to be in their shoes? The free dev devices is just a PR stunt they stole to m
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by barista 14y ago
This is a bit embarrassing for Google. They have always released a product that have stayed in Beta long after it has launched. That probably works for a software product but not for hardware.

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