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FLASH DANCE!
The Verge
Brian_M
On The Verge since Dec 13, 2011
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Not to mention, over a year after launching, Skype on Windows Phone is STILL “beta.”
Seriously?!?
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The Skype team is “completely independent.”
Given Microsoft’s absolute chaotic, fiefdom-oriented nature, even core Microsoft products like Office and Windows RT didn’t play nicely together. Sinofsky siloed Office to such an extreme that even Microsoft hasn’t developed a “Metro” version yet.
Skype is going to be even worse, since it’s an “outside company” that they acquired.
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It only outsold BB 10 in that quarter due to limited availability of 10 (in just three countries, on one handset).
BB10 will almost certainly outside BBOS 7 this quarter.
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Its constantly shrinking
No, it’s not. The only time it shrank was in the prior quarter when there were no new devices. Even in the worst dark days of 2012, it continued to grow.
Now it’s growing at a very torrid rate thanks to uptake of BB 10.
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Chromebook is not going to happen. Stop trying to make Chromebook happen.
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Oh, c’mon. Mac Pro Coffee Machine Edition™ is truly innovative!
It’s not at all like the Amiga Walker:
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Sure it’s true. There was an article on the Verge just a couple of weeks ago that complained that the highest-end $3,999 MacBook couldn’t fully drive an ASUS high-resolution external display. Whereas a $1,299 ASUS ROG can drive two of them at the same time.
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My iMac smokes anything in its class.
Do me a favor.
Load and run “Star Wars, The Old Republic” — a two-year-old game — in high resolution detail on that “smokin’” iMac.
It won’t even render, because the graphics chipset sucks.
A “power machine” that cannot reasonable run a two-year-old 3D game, for twice the price of a PC that can fly through it without even kicking the fan on.
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Your problem is that you’re trying to shoehorn oddball stuff — Mac and Dropbox — into a common Office workflow.
Use Windows on your Mac along with Skydrive and it all works well.
And before you complain about it, keep in mind that iCloud won’t integrate with Office on Windows at ALL, so Microsoft’s still ahead of where Apple is, in terms of interoperability.
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Yeah, I was going to go and check out all the articles about Wave and Buzz when they launched, but Google Reader doesn’t seem to be working… what’s up?!?
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Recommended stubble's comment in Office for iPhone: Microsoft delivers basic document editing, but no iPad version
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Recommended javalin's comment in Office for iPhone: Microsoft delivers basic document editing, but no iPad version
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Recommended ryan_socio's comment in Office for iPhone: Microsoft delivers basic document editing, but no iPad version
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Intel SUX! Power Macintosh is up to four times faster, despite the Megahertz Myth! And…
Ooops, sorry. Time warp Apple marketing there. ;)
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the company already makes the best laptop and the best all-in-one PC
Uhhhh, no.
It makes underpowered machines in gorgeously designed enclosures that lack sufficient horsepower for tasks beyond basic hobbyist applications like entry-level video editing. Sorry.
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Actually, it isn’t really.
Nokia will probably sell more smartphones in Q2 than HTC sells.
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Recommended wyn6's comment in Nokia Lumia 925 review
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True, but then The Verge should drop the faux-systematic-review-weightings and just say “this author loves it/hates it.”
The “number score across criteria” is supposedly designed to indicate the relative performance of devices on a comparable scale.
That two devices that are essentially the same would receive such different scores is puzzling, to say the least.
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Recommended schnokobaer's comment in Nokia Lumia 925 review
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You broke the phone and shattered the screen?
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Recommended hunkashoo102's comment in Nokia Lumia 925 review
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I don’t, but I am an outlier. I don’t even own a television.
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Americans are rushing headlong back into debt as fast as their grubby little feet will let ’em. ESPECIALLY college and credit card and car debt.
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SCOTUS won’t do bupkus — they’re going to demand a legislative solution to the situation.
And here’s the problem:
2003
Democrat: The government is monitoring our communications without warrants or real oversight via real courts! THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS AND MUST END!
Republican: It’s to stop terrorists. If you don’t like it, you hate America.
Democrat: NO! With our hope and change candidate, we will end this horrendous practice once and for all!
2013
Republican: This is outrageous! Government is downloading records of ALL phone calls and collecting billions of pieces of information on every user worldwide! AND they’re profiling conservative groups and targeting them for audits!
Democrats: This is a Republican era policy. Blame Bush, not us.
Republican: This policy must end!
Democrats: Ummm… it’s your policy. Besides, I trust Obama, and if you leak, you’re a traitor who hates America.
Third parties: We will actually stop this stuff, not just say “it’s only okay when we do it.”
Republicans and Democrats: SHUT THE HELL UP! Who let THIS punk on stage?
Americans: Dudes, shut up and stop shouting! Pass me a beer. And did you see that Kardashian reality show thingy last night? D00D she was SMOKIN’!
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Sure he can do it in reality. It might “cost him politically,” but that’s entirely separate from being accountable and ethical.
Too many apologists for this administration, and the previous one, put politics ahead of the fundamental responsibilities of the office. That’s one reason why the US is now the Internet’s biggest dodgy banana republic.
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Recommended bunny rabid's comment in PRISM data collection happens without tech companies' knowledge, says Washington Post
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But but but wait… Google and others have said there is “no back door.”
Is it a “back portal” instead? Or a side door? Or a hatch on the roof?
All the technical “denials” and constantly lying has completely sullied the reputation of the US government, US tech community and the US as a place to do business. The government AND US tech companies need to come clean and allow an independent party to investigate and report the truth.
If the Constitution was violated, this needs to be addressed by SCOTUS immediately. And if individuals anywhere broke existing privacy, security or other law, they need to be prosecuted and imprisoned after a guilty verdict, using the rules of evidence in a standard, public court trial.
Until ALL of this happens, the USA is the Internet equivalent of a dodgy banana republic. No companies outside the country will want to do business with any US companies and many countries may BAN their firms from doing business here based on their privacy laws.
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Recommended Vellion's comment in NSA 'Boundless Informant' software leak shows just how much data the government has
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If accurate, it also demonstrates that statements made just today and yesterday by the president, members of Congress, and representatives of the companies implicated in PRISM — claiming it impacted only a few thousand people — are bald-faced lies.
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Recommended Lynchenstein's comment in Tech companies reportedly built 'secure portals' for government surveillance in lieu of 'direct access' to servers
