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exactly.

about 2 hours ago on For New York's tech scene, Mayor Bloomberg is a tough act to follow

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Nope, not debatable. I’m saying this as a NorCal native. Some areas compete with NYC, or excel it, within a certain specific vein — media and pop culture, certainly, have their major fountainheads on the West Coast, as discussed the tech/VC/startup economy is centered rock-solid in SV, a lot of high finance stuff happens in Hong Kong, and of course all our laws are passed in DC. But what people are doing in New York shapes all that stuff. The world’s best and brightest, literally, go there. “If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.” Political influence, economic production, art, finance, media, literature and publishing, fashion, design, industry, tourism and travel, education, healthcare — you can make a case in nearly all of these that it’s at the top or near the top. And it’s the only city in the world where that is true, other than possibly London and maybe Tokyo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_city

about 2 hours ago on For New York's tech scene, Mayor Bloomberg is a tough act to follow 1 recommend

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I liked Wreck-It Ralph a lot but at the same time I mainly agree with your subsequent points.

about 2 hours ago on 'Monsters University' review: Pixar makes prequels look easy

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meanwhile, on the Verge frontpage:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/18/4439084/inside-pocket-how-read-it-later-beat-rivals-to-build-dvr-for-everything
Bay Area locations mentioned in the first sentence.

about 6 hours ago on For New York's tech scene, Mayor Bloomberg is a tough act to follow 1 reply 3 recommends

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I don’t know, I feel like I remember this tone from thisismynext—waxing blissful and ecstatic about the office in Manhattan.

about 7 hours ago on For New York's tech scene, Mayor Bloomberg is a tough act to follow 1 recommend

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Hey dude. I live in SF, my work is tangential to the (medical) tech industry…I’m upstairs from Rdio right now….JTops and the Verge as a whole have been fairly open and obvious NYC boosters since day one, but contrary to your position, it’s not some kind of nattering thing where they never shut up about it…if anything it amounts to a positive-sounding sentence or two once every week or so when an article shows up about something in there. You are being a little sensitive.

Also, of course there are more tech businesses in SF and Silicon Valley. I don’t think you’re disillusioning anyone. Nor do I think the Verge is stinting on covering the rest of the startup scene—look at it this way: if they’re interviewing a founder in SV or profiling a startup somewhere here, they’re not going to mention it necessarily. Because where is everyone? What are the readers going to assume? But they are still covering that news. Now if they’re discussing something in NYC, or for that matter Malmö or Kyoto or whatever, they’re definitely going to bring up that point, because it’s more unusual/interesting.

about 7 hours ago on For New York's tech scene, Mayor Bloomberg is a tough act to follow 1 reply 2 recommends

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Lots of people providing the same anecdotal evidence > 1 person providing anecdotal evidence. I hereby add mine: everyone in San Francisco has a fcking iphone. Everyone in the Mission has a MBP and everyone downtown has an Air.
Not that any of this is really “evidence” in a true sense at all since these are just internet comments.

5 days ago on 'Can't innovate anymore, my ass': Apple's bravado clouds the company's real challenges 3 recommends

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lolwut.jpg

6 days ago on iOS 7 still 'a work in progress' alleges The Next Web 4 recommends

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You beat me to it. I was like, wait wait, the icons were designed by marketing?

6 days ago on iOS 7 still 'a work in progress' alleges The Next Web 2 replies 29 recommends

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yeah that was sort of what I was going for.

But also, were contact to be achieved, you know this would come up at some point.

6 days ago on Contact: are alien-hunting scientists going to trigger a planetary invasion?

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I might try to get back the username of the very first webmail account I ever set up, back when I was like 10, and which I later forgot the password and recovery info for…

6 days ago on Yahoo will reset inactive accounts this July to free up the user ID you've 'always wanted'

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Dear aliens,
We like to stick our penises in things.
Various things.
Holes, orifices.
We got rule 34.
Any kind of holes you got, there is someone here who will put their penis in it.
Stay away.

6 days ago on Contact: are alien-hunting scientists going to trigger a planetary invasion? 1 reply 1 recommend

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except that he was not speaking for himself, he was generalizing.

I think that most of us…

So, nope.

7 days ago on Apple previews radically redesigned Mac Pro: 'Can't innovate anymore, my ass'

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I sort of agree but I hope you make an exception for Stan Lee.

8 days ago on The design of iOS 7: simply confusing 1 reply 5 recommends

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Speak for yourself. Also:

a Dull Dell or a Horrible HP

alliteration does not make criticism more effective. Please stop. reminds me of “Windoze”

8 days ago on Apple previews radically redesigned Mac Pro: 'Can't innovate anymore, my ass' 1 reply 1 recommend

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now there’s one.

8 days ago on Apple announces iOS 7, 'biggest change' since the introduction of the iPhone, coming this fall

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should be
bq. Samsung has, by and large, followed suit.

/grammarnazi

8 days ago on Apple announces iOS 7, 'biggest change' since the introduction of the iPhone, coming this fall 1 reply