Comment

2012 Jaguar XF Diesel. Company car with all the trimmings!

16 days ago on What kind of car do you drive? 1 reply 1 recommend

Comment

Definitely this line got the biggest laugh of the whole D11 conference!

16 days ago on Nilay Patel at AllThingsD D11 asking Tim Cook about Samsung

Comment

What for? Microsoft already has Yammer which is an enterprise type social network.

Don’t forget Microsoft also owns a portion of Facebook.

16 days ago on Should MS buy LinkedIn? 3 recommends

Comment

I dont think Windows will ever be truly done but I think with a few more iterations Windows will fade to the background more.

Think about the sheer volume of PC’s that use Windows around the world, if Microsoft stopped making Windows tomorrow we would still have Windows machines around for a good ten years.

16 days ago on Microsoft mulls 'major restructuring' with focus on devices and services like Xbox and Skype (update)

Comment

Agreed, but thats never stopped Apple before :-)

16 days ago on Asus unveils VivoMouse, 'world's first' mouse and touchpad combination for Windows 8

Comment

This would be a smart move for Microsoft, they recognise Windows is not going to be the cash cow it once was and instead forms a sort of back bone for the company.

Interesting times it would seem.

16 days ago on Microsoft mulls 'major restructuring' with focus on devices and services like Xbox and Skype (update) 2 replies 3 recommends

Comment

Interesting device (probably) terrible name.

16 days ago on Asus announces 6-inch 1080p FonePad Note

Comment

Asus describes it as the ’world’s first’ combination of a mouse and touchpad.

I reckon Apple might have something to say about that with their Magic Mouse….

16 days ago on Asus unveils VivoMouse, 'world's first' mouse and touchpad combination for Windows 8 1 reply 9 recommends

Comment

I doubt it, still compared to what an upgrade for Windows used to cost the OSX upgrades are a relative bargain.

16 days ago on Will OSX 10.9 be free? 1 reply

Comment

Quite simply it’s me with a dash of Photoshop laid over the top.

I have been a Photoshop dabbler for a few years and thought I could use a cool (ish) avatar to reflect what I like to do with my downtime.

17 days ago on What is the story behind your avatar?

Comment

If I recall Josh mentioned in one of the Vergecasts that the tablet versions were still in development?

I believe he called Safari the current Verge tablet app.

17 days ago on Verge app: Any plans for tablet versions?

Comment

Depends what your expectation of new is I suppose?

For sure most of the Mac lineup will get Haswell chips along with the newest version of OSX (eventually).

From what I’ve read about Haswell better battery life is one of the big selling points, Sean Hollister’s writeup has all the details here.

17 days ago on New MacBook Air

Comment

If I say Apple do I get thrown out? Love them or hate them Apple’s hardware is hard to beat.

17 days ago on What's your Favorite PC Manufacturer? 1 reply

Comment

They are both cool. The red looks more orange on my screen though?

18 days ago on The Verge Logo One Color 1 reply 1 recommend

Comment

Would be good to see Jony up on stage, but im going to say Ive in video with Tim Cook, Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi doing their respective bits.

18 days ago on Will Jony Ive give the on-stage demo of iOS7 at WWDC?

Comment

Chronologically the first film was simply called Star Trek The Motion Picture but you could watch the 2009 re-boot on its own without seeing any of the original films.

18 days ago on The star trek dilemma!!??

Comment

6"+ is the new norm for 2013’s android phablets.

Really? Surely some of that R&D budget would be better spent making a longer lasting battery?

I cannot ever see myself using anything bigger than a five inch phone, my better half has a Nexus 4 and I have an iPhone 5, neither of us feel constrained by screen size.

18 days ago on Nokia Lumia 1030 (deemed fake after all)

Comment

I do agree but the thought of a Carbon Fibre Mac weighing half the current model you have to admit is a wonderful dream….

19 days ago on What do you see coming for the macbook air? 1 reply

Comment

My goodness…. that looks vast.

19 days ago on Nokia Lumia 1030 (deemed fake after all) 1 reply

Comment

That looks like a smaller HTC One in the picture? M4 maybe?

Also what is that monstrosity in the bottom right of the image, does it say Sony on the top?

19 days ago on Nokia Lumia 1030 (deemed fake after all) 1 reply

Comment

If and when we ever see the Apple TV you can bet the hardware will be sublime, however TV is about much more.

What Apple and the rest of the TV industry need to do is something different, change the game. The user experience is key. I’m lucky enough to live in the UK where we have Sky + which is one of the best services around (at a price) and it still sucks, it’s the same as its always been, an EPG with 500 or so channels and a mine field trying to find something half decent to watch.

For my two pennies, I think Xbox One is the most promising thing to happen to TV in a long time, but even thats far from perfect although to be fair we dont really know what Xbox One TV can really do yet.

19 days ago on The infamous iTV!!! (My thoughts)

Comment

I could see the Nexus program and Google Edition phones living side by side.

Nexus could become the aggressively priced Google own brand so to speak and then Google Edition phones could be for the premium market.

19 days ago on Will there be more Google Edition phones? 1 reply 1 recommend

Comment

Bonus points if anyone has ever seen a Jetstream in the wild? Pictures or it didn’t happen….

20 days ago on HTC reportedly cancels plans for full-size Windows RT tablet, but 7-inch tablets still on track 3 replies 9 recommends

Comment

Just to be clear I have no proof of this whatsoever… Would just be cool I think? Although ironically physically cool it may not be, I believe the aluminium body of the current Mac lineup acts as a form of heat sink?

My own MBP sat on my lap as I type this is rather toasty, not sure Carbon Fibre would sufficiently cool a super fast Haswell chip?

Anyway… We can dream?

20 days ago on What do you see coming for the macbook air? 1 reply

Comment

Carbon Fibre… You heard it here first!

20 days ago on What do you see coming for the macbook air? 1 reply

Comment

Big pinch of salt needed with that post. December 31st seems odd? Why announce now and then miss the lucrative holiday season? Also £600 seems far too high, not saying its a deal breaker but out of reach for a lot of people. Placeholders are not usually very accurate.

20 days ago on XBOX ONE £600 - DEC 31 Release

Comment

You reckon an iPhone 6 and not a 5s? Interesting…..

20 days ago on Nexus 5 2 replies

Comment

Sundar Pichai confirmed today at D11 that the Nexus program will continue.

20 days ago on Nexus 5 2 replies 6 recommends

Comment

Release time I would guess towards the end of the year, October / November time.

As to the manufacturer? I think we can assume LG will not be the partner of choice.

I would like to see Sony have a crack at a Nexus, wild speculation only, no proof.

20 days ago on Nexus 5