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I was thinking about this the other week, Sony laptops used to have a button on them labelled “Web”, and when you clicked on it from the off state it would instant boot into a Linux based Webkit browser in seconds. I was always wondering why Google never tried to position Chrome OS in that space but instead of the button saying “Web” have it say “Google”.

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It’s integrated into the Windows 8 People app, along with having it’s own Modern UI app.

I don’t see the point of integrating it into the messaging app since that doesn’t support video messaging, how else could they have integrated it into Windows 8 / RT?

3 days ago on Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in 2 replies 1 recommend

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Skype uses it too, which allows Facebook and Skype users to message each other.

3 days ago on Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in 2 recommends

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You’re really basing a products relevance on how many times it’s mentioned in one article? A service that has 280 million monthly active users who’s users collectively spend 2 billion minutes a day talking to eachother. It’s as irrelevant as WhatsApp which reported 200 million monthly active users. Which is to say, pretty relevant.

4 days ago on Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in 1 reply 10 recommends

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Check the play store for an update, that’s what I had to do.

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That IS IE10 on WP8

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Why would anyone buy this over Windows 8 (given similar priced devices) when there are already a lot of “good apps for notebooks” on Windows already?

It’s a fair point to say that Google could update the UI to work better in notebook form, but if the article is correct and Samsung release an Android device without that needed update as a new Galaxy Book™ line, wouldn’t this create a negative impact on peoples perceptions of Android as a notebook?

6 days ago on Andriod Laptops - Another Dent for Windows

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Did you just come here to promote your book or have an actual discussion? You’ve recommended it 3 times now and have essentially stated that you feel that this discussion is pointless.

I wouldn’t mind but when you choose to recommend your book over actually giving someone your opinion which the other posters in have managed to do for you it comes across as a little self-serving. Giving someone a glimpse into your views beyond “I go into this in my book on Amazon” might have gotten the desired effect.

Onto your point, there are already cases where people have managed to get up to 100 WPM using touch screen devices (smartphone, two thumb text entry).

I don’t think you can look at tablets replacing keyboards in the way keyboards replaced typewriters without looking at the tablet device entirely. When you use an on-screen keyboard you’re giving up screen real estate for the ability to type, you’re also limited to placing the tablet flat or propping it up somehow which decreases typing efficiency and becomes uncomfortable since you’re looking directly down at the object, viewing it at an angle or trying to type on an almost vertical surface.

Alternatively, you could connect it to a keyboard or external monitor and adjust the device until it’s in the optimal position. Which is getting in to hybrid territory. So to answer your question, no, I don’t think pure tablets are the future, I believe a hybrid device (a tablet that can be docked with a keyboard) such as Intel’s Cove Point or North Cape will be.

6 days ago on Can you imagine that tablets will be the future PC? 1 reply

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when you double click any word

6 days ago on Andriod Laptops - Another Dent for Windows

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What you did there, I saw it.

@challengeaccepted if you’re on Google Chrome and use the Google Dictionary app, it brings up the definition of a word when you double any word. When double clicking on “Andriod” the definition is:

Mobile phone and soon to be desktop and laptop operating software created by Google.

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No they wouldn’t, they’d open an investigation and ask MS to change the app if anything and THEN if MS failed they’d be fined. Such a thing has happened in the past.

Also, wouldn’t Google have to have all the apps that block YouTube’s ads removed too? Or is it okay just to target one specific application (which is also free, so no money goes to Microsoft) out of the many that break the ToS.

8 days ago on Microsoft YouTube App Is A Rule Breaker; It Strips Ads, Downloads Video 2 recommends