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I haven’t yet seen a single set of icons that are not vastly better than what Apple showed off.

about 15 hours ago on [iOS 7 icon redesign] My expectations 1 recommend

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..because it makes it more functional, and gives antennas more range. This isn’t something you keep on you, play with, interact with, and show off to people. It’s a damn router, and IMO it looks pretty damn cool. Definitely the best looking router out there, size increase or not.

about 15 hours ago on Airport Extreme: It's Ugly 4 recommends

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Completely agree. This movie had no soul, and I never once connected with anything onscreen. Since superman felt like a God, the fights just seemed like good looking “noise”.

about 15 hours ago on 'Man of Steel' review: finally, the Superman we deserve

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I thought the visual of this movie were impressive, one of the “shiniest” movies I’ve seen in terms of SFX, but everything else was complete trash. Took itself way too seriously, and tried to hammer you over the head with the emotion it wanted to convey, which fell flat each time and made me roll my eyes. I never once cared a shred or got emotionally invested into a single character, and they managed to throw in every single superhero cliche/trope. I don’t know, I guess I was naively hoping for something a bit less insulting to the audience.

about 15 hours ago on 'Man of Steel' review: finally, the Superman we deserve

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No, it’s not unreasonable, but I see no point in getting emotionally invested in the outcome, or caring too much about it at this point. It shouldn’t be something that causes you any kind of emotional or financial grief, since it’s basically the cost of a cheap lunch, that you’ll have the OPTION of getting, which enhances the abilities of your $1,400 laptop.

3 days ago on Will new MacBook Airs get free upgrade to Mavericks? 1 recommend

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It doesn’t matter how many thousands of dollar of value they’re offering, it’s irrelevant. The key is to hit a certain price-point. By this logic, Microsoft could have raised the price by another $100, while offering an additional $1000 in value, and it would have been an awesome decision. Most people don’t calculate the “value” based on specs when buying a videogame system.

3 days ago on Microsoft's Don Mattrick defends Xbox pricing: 'We're delivering thousands of dollars of value'

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Why don’t you give me a list of reasons of how and why a touchscreen on a laptop is a better input method? I’m using an Air now, am swiping across the screen pretending its a touchscreen, and am annoyed an uncomfortable after 10 seconds. They’re not gonna shoehorn a touchscreen for OSX, which isn’t a touch optimized OS, and it makes no sense to throw iOS on their notebooks. The only reason to add a touchscreen is for the bullet point, which.

3 days ago on MacBook Air review (13-inch, 2013) 1 reply

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The same people trolling that the Air isn’t thin and light enough are the same people who mocked the hell out of it not long ago for being so thin and night, claiming it was “unecessary” and “gimmicky”. They have no vision, so always mock whatever moves things forward, only to come around and bash it later when they have some competing product to cheerlead for which is insignificantly superior in that one metric.

3 days ago on MacBook Air review (13-inch, 2013) 1 reply 14 recommends

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Awesome score for an awesome machine.

3 days ago on MacBook Air review (13-inch, 2013) 1 recommend

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Uh, that was 13 hrs in one usage scenario. I’m sure with the things I do, I will get significantly less, so yes, having such a great battery is important as ever.

3 days ago on MacBook Air review (13-inch, 2013)

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Wait, you’re saying the Air isn’t thin and light? What the fuck are you on? 13 hrs of battery life in such a machine is insanely impressive, and even for trolls like you can acknowledge that. Also, they didn’t give it a “pass” for resolution, its mentioned in the review and in the cons. But it just so happens that everything else about the machine is awesome overall, so it still gets a great score. Imagine that, eh?

3 days ago on MacBook Air review (13-inch, 2013) 3 recommends

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Does the ad REALLY have to be that massive though? it’s absolutely ludicrous, and this thread should indicate as such. Anyway, I hope samsung has thrown enough money your way to make up for the shitty user experience this is causing your visitors.

3 days ago on Really, guys? This Samsung Ad? What is this?

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So 2 weeks later, and this ad is STILL showing for me, every SINGLE time I visit the site, apparently being a permanent fixture of the site now. Unbelievable. I need to buy a bigger laptop so I can actually fit all pixels on my screen. Is there no shame?

3 days ago on Really, guys? This Samsung Ad? What is this? 2 replies 1 recommend

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Adblock is useless. That ad is actually coded as part of the site. I just don’t understand how it’s right that out of the hundreds of companies and products that this site discusses/reviews, all I see are massive Samsung ads. Even if Samsung is throwing money at theVerge like there’s no tomorrow, I think there should still be some guidelines of integrity, in that they’re able to say “no thanks”.

3 days ago on So is the MASSIVE Samsung S4 Ad now a permanent fixture of this site? 5 replies 3 recommends

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Yeah, I’m sure Tim Cook convened a meeting of top execs, and they concocted this evil conspiracy to “blatantly lie”, which amounts of not yet updating the fineprint on their non-updated hardware. There’s not chance that was left there by accident, because Apple may have been focusing on the other 56,291 updates to their site, right?

What a fucking troll.

3 days ago on Apple blatantly lies on their website

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I agree 100% with absolutely everything except the round icons, which is a beyond horrible idea.

3 days ago on iOS 7 is beautiful , But not prefect. Ideas To make it better  ?

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So where do they set the cutoff date? A day after you bought yours? 1 month before release? 2 months? 3? Either way, many people will just barely miss the cutoff, and there will be bitching and whining. It will at most be a $20 OS, so I think it’s pretty irrelevant. There is no “principle” involved. You bought your laptop knowing the OS version that was installed on it, and before a new OS was even announced by Apple, let alone having a release date. I plan to buy a 13" Retina MBP as soon as they update them to haswell, and the least of my worries will be whether I will have the option to shell out $10-$20 for a new OS a few months later.

3 days ago on Will new MacBook Airs get free upgrade to Mavericks? 1 reply 1 recommend

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It also would have destroyed battery life. It’s not all about marketing. The Macbook Pro has a discrete GPU to drive the graphics, and is also significantly thinner than the Air. It will get a retina display eventually, but the technology is not quite there yet, and the compromises too large.

6 days ago on WWDC 2013: No Retina Display on the MacBook Air? 2 replies

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Nope.

6 days ago on Should i go ahead and buy the Apple TV 3rd gen?

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Doesn’t want us to see, really? Name one 1 other company who gave a news channel and video crews unfettered access to their manufacturing lines. Apple did that. They’ve had more transparency than ANYONE else, and are actually implementing meaningful changes, everyday, to improve the situation.

http://www.apple.com/ca/supplierresponsibility/accountability.html

Go read the progress report pdf at the bottom of this page.

Currently, it’s impossible to bring mass manufacturing, with the complexity of products and # of sales Apple makes, back to the states. Not difficult, utterly impossible. It’s not about cost, but logistics and suppliers.

Maybe you can do some real research, and find ways to help advocate for the situation like lobby the Chinese gvt for better policies, but it’s easier to make this kind of superficial, agenda-driven pst on this forum, pretending that you care, simply to attack the one company out of hundreds involved that are doing the MOST to improve it. You predictably have no suggestions, no solutions, just misguided attacks.

6 days ago on The ad Apple wouldn't want you to see 4 recommends

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So, you’re saying you weren’t aware that Apple introduced new APIs with iOS7 (1500 to be exact)? Really? Also, what is it that you’ve said that can be “proven” wrong? It’s the familiar “LOL APPLE SUX, THEY’RE DOOMED, PROVE ME WRONG” line of trolling. You never stated any real facts in your piece, only assertions using subjective language, using familiar lines of trolling like “once-leader is playing catch-up”, “isn’t innovating”, and superficial comparisons to competing software. I don’t see how counting how many new APIs Apple has introduced, or the hundreds of under-the-hood changes will convince you of anything, or affect your specious and agenda-driven line of reasoning.

6 days ago on iOS 7 redesign: the beginning of the end for Apple exceptionalism 1 recommend