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I dunno, with Mayer at the helm, I feel like she knows what she’s doing. If anything changes on Tumblr, I don’t think it will be much, and not for quite a while, I would imagine.

about 20 hours ago on WSJ: Yahoo's board approves $1.1 billion all-cash Tumblr acquisition 4 replies 45 recommends

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And yet, exactly zero of my 200+ friends on Facebook are on G+. Sure, it might be a wet dream for the tech crowd, but it sucks for the average person.

4 days ago on Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in 3 replies 16 recommends

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Tens of people will be excited.

5 days ago on Google TV updated to Android 4.2.2, removing Flash and adding Chrome content protection 3 replies 16 recommends

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The iPhone is still outperforming many phones that are releasing right now.

6 days ago on Nokia's aluminum Lumia 925 is the best Windows Phone yet, but that's not enough (hands-on) 2 recommends

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No one mentioned the same players.

Over 70% of the number of players that were online at it’s peak are still online today.

11 days ago on 'World of Warcraft' subscriber base drops by 1.3 million in three months 1 reply 1 recommend

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Damn, I hope the rest of The Verge takes on this design. It looks fantastic.

11 days ago on Introducing Verge Video 1 recommend

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The number of players at peak was at or around 12 million. The number of players now, as released by Activision and cited in this very article, is at 8.3 million. The citation is a calculator. 69.1%, which is damn close to 70%.

But hey, I wouldn’t expect a “citation needed” troll to actually, you know, read an article.

11 days ago on 'World of Warcraft' subscriber base drops by 1.3 million in three months 1 reply 3 recommends

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Yep, and really that’s what Blizzard does best. Cherry pick the most popular/best working pieces of other games, polish the hell out of them, and release. D3 was their only release that was bad, and it has improved immensely since release (not counting the latest gold duping bug).

It’s not bad that they do that, it’s just how they work. I look forward to the MMO they have in the works.

12 days ago on 'World of Warcraft' subscriber base drops by 1.3 million in three months

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Not particularly surprising. The game is very close to 9 years old. The fact is still has over 8 million subs is pretty astounding.

12 days ago on 'World of Warcraft' subscriber base drops by 1.3 million in three months 1 reply 33 recommends

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lol, perfect.

13 days ago on Windows Phone finally gets a full YouTube app with playlists and sign-in support 3 recommends

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lol, seriously. It’s like saying EA and other game companies are doing illegal things by not making every game for Mac OS. This is what happens when you’re using a platform that’s in the overwhelming minority of total users.

13 days ago on Windows Phone finally gets a full YouTube app with playlists and sign-in support 3 replies 19 recommends

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lol, I just picture an HTC exec being like “You want to load custom ROMs?? Well then, NO CALCULATOR FOR YOU! Hah!”

14 days ago on Strongly considering getting the HTC One Dev edition - any Nexus 4 --> HTC One converts? 2 recommends

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iPhone 5

Email for my school account, SMS, Twitter, Facebook, SportsCenter. All I can think of, off hand, and I don’t remember anything different popping up recently.

EDIT: Oh, and on my Nexus 7, it’s pretty much the same thing except add Google +, and take away SMS and SportsCenter.

15 days ago on What push notifications do you have enabled on your phone?