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Good catch, but it still seems churlish to complain about a free service that they’ve just upgraded by removing the 200 image limit and increasing the storage limit on.

about 4 hours ago on Yahoo unveils the new Flickr with one terabyte of free space 1 reply 1 recommend

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That was a great article, and yeah it sucks that they have no Android app and yeah they lost the bulk of the smartphone users to Instagram and a lot of the hardcore photogs to 500px. But flickr itself is a great gallery/social network for photographers, and I prefer it to the more aggressive, promotional stance of 500px.

about 15 hours ago on Yahoo acquires Tumblr in $1.1 billion cash deal, promises 'not to screw it up'

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That makes no sense whatsoever, but I’ll give you points for originality.

about 15 hours ago on Yahoo acquires Tumblr in $1.1 billion cash deal, promises 'not to screw it up' 10 recommends

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Google hangouts (formerly Talk) works for me. Not that I have anything against Skype, but Hangouts ends up the one I reach for these days.

about 15 hours ago on Yahoo acquires Tumblr in $1.1 billion cash deal, promises 'not to screw it up' 1 reply 5 recommends

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How many Xboxes are out there vs. Android- and Apple TV-boxes?

Whoa, Holy selective representation Batman!

Microsoft has consoles, desktop and notebook PCs, and a small number of mobile devices.
Google has everyone who uses the play store, on Android or on a PC.
Apple has everyone who uses iTunes.
Sony has consoles, and any platform they chose to develop an app for.

I would make a guess that the killer feature for most people is access to your music library from your mobile phone. Everything after that is nice extras.

That’s why, since a) Microsoft did not pursue Zune and b) their mobile share is pityful, they are at a fundamental disadvatange even if their service is actually pretty good. (Probably too good, as in it loses money for them.)

about 20 hours ago on How Google beat Apple to a streaming music service

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all my MS devices. Xbox, Windows 8, Windows Phone, Surface Pro/RT

You do realize that this block ownership of the Microsoft product portfolio makes you a tiny, tiny minority of the population right? So what you care about is really neither here nor there to most people reading this.

about 20 hours ago on How Google beat Apple to a streaming music service

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Sounds like typical Sony. At least they seem to have made the DRM a little less annoying than usual.

about 20 hours ago on How Google beat Apple to a streaming music service

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Two people claiming to have Microsoft tablets replying to a single Verge comment?

I call shenanigans. Seems like half the comments in this thread are from Xbox Music subscribers, Windows RT, and Windows Phone users.

Do they pay you by the comment up in Redmond?

about 20 hours ago on How Google beat Apple to a streaming music service

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its been largely overlooked and undermarketed

By Microsoft itself yo.

about 20 hours ago on How Google beat Apple to a streaming music service

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Apple’s service will leverage iTunes, and have a high adoption rate as a result.

But … Android is equally massive. Almost every Android phone owner is a Google Play store user. Signing up is a low resistance act, just a button press away…

about 20 hours ago on How Google beat Apple to a streaming music service

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You are not “that guy”. You are one of 150 of “those guys”, astroturfers desperately trying to bring Microsoft and Xbox music into the conversation here. Just as you try to do in every thread tangenially related to Microsoft products.

This is an article about how, of two highly anticipated music streaming service slated to this year, Google managed to beat Apple in announcing (and bringing out) their service first.

ITS GOT NOTHING TO DO WITH MICROSOFT!

about 20 hours ago on How Google beat Apple to a streaming music service

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Actually it only has to be about as good for it to be successful. Apple, even more than Google, can rely on a captive audience – those who already use iTunes.

about 20 hours ago on How Google beat Apple to a streaming music service

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Well that’s exactly what happens when his advice on that point is not followed. Maps was a massive task, and they brought it out before it was fully baked.

about 20 hours ago on How Google beat Apple to a streaming music service

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I wonder if there is any difficulty operating smartphones and other electroncis in freezing temperatures? You’d think the liquid crystals in the display might freeze! :-)

1 day ago on British explorer Daniel Hughes makes first video call from Everest's peak

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I still don’t “get” this. Yahoo owning a bunch of cool web sites is just Yahoo owning a bunch of cool web sites. It doesn’t make Yahoo – the web entity, rather than the company – better, because Yahoo as web entity is .. nothing. Just a collection of “stuff”, none of which is dependent on any other.

Google buying Youtube, or Nik software, I can see: its a product that can be brought in to enhance the whole Google web entity. Ditto facebook and instagram. It makes sense. But Yahoo, which is, at its core, a web portal dating back to the time before there were search engines (!), has no relevance to the modern internet.

1 day ago on WSJ: Yahoo's board approves $1.1 billion all-cash Tumblr acquisition 3 recommends

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Editr?

1 day ago on WSJ: Yahoo's board approves $1.1 billion all-cash Tumblr acquisition

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The integrated amplifier was the huge mistake. Not because it was bad, but because people didn’t appreciate the feature.

2 days ago on Google's potential Nexus Q successor revealed in FCC filing 1 reply 5 recommends

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I understood it as a device with a very singular purpose: play Google Play music through loudspeakers.

Which is basically cool, except that no one at the time had the bulk of their music on Google Play.

2 days ago on Google's potential Nexus Q successor revealed in FCC filing 1 reply

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1992? Oh, crap. Damn you, Verge, for making me feel old!

2 days ago on The Classics: Lush, 'Spooky' 1 recommend

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Maybe they – and we – should lower expectations. Just get the dang TVs with built-in Android. Or a little Android “puck” like Apple TV. At the very least it would mean being able to watch Youtube, and whatever movies I might have on Google Play. Once the numbers get past a certain point, people will start making (TV specific) apps, and more services like Netflix etc. will sign on.

3 days ago on Google TV: silent but not forgotten at I/O 2013 2 replies

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I remember when Microsoft tried to buy Nintendo.

4 days ago on Electronic Arts is no longer developing games for Nintendo's Wii U

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In Nintendo’s way of thinking, no, they don’t.

4 days ago on Electronic Arts is no longer developing games for Nintendo's Wii U 1 recommend

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I prefer to think of them as a straightforward and upfront info collecting monster…

4 days ago on Google encourages developers to push the limits by hacking Glass 4 recommends