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It is more an huge fail from HP than a victory from Google, even if it is obviously good news for the search giant.
The mark of a good acquisition is that the high profile employees continue to work on their projects in the new environment. In that regard, when Duarte resigned from HP, it was already a big problem. Now that the OS is basically brain dead, it is normal to see the employees seek greener pastures.

Android is maturing extremely rapidly.
If you compare the Nexus One, S & Galaxy and the state of Android & of the Google apps at the date of their releases, you realize that the changes are legion.

Yes, it also reminds me of the gopro, the only difference is that it is only one of the feature of Google glasses. The GoPro will obviously produce videos of better quality since it has a bigger sensor and that is what really matters for video/picture but Google Glasses can touch a larger audience.

The feature could be really different.
Google+ & Facebook are not really direct competitors. It makes good headlines, tech blogs like to write about the iPad killer, Facebook killer or anything mainstream killer in fact but in the reality while some products are indeed direct competitors, it is not always the case.
I use Facebook in order to stay in touch with old friends, I knew 90% of my Facebook contacts before adding them.
Google+ is a passion sharing tool. I knew only ~20% of my G+ contacts before adding them, but I met scores of interesting people there. The main use is not to broadcast what you are listening to, or the list of all articles you are reading, or all the pictures you took during that last trip but to focus on the content you actually want to share with the limited subset of your contacts that care about that specific topic.

If anything, G+ is closer to twitter than to Facebook.

They have a patent for that. They will of course also have a solution for people that already wear glasses.

Having videos from sportive events (F1, sprints, …. ) has awesome potential !
Boxing matches would also be fun but I fear there are some practical problems with that idea.
Imagine that the next time you climb a mountain or descend rapids you are able to snatch a first person video.
Google is on to something here !

Android already took some good ideas from webOS, like the new task switching that look a lot like webOS’s cards.
BTW it is absolutely fine to take an idea like that, you should not have to imagine an alternative to pinch to zoom just because someone else implemented it before you. Even more so since the man that had most of webOS ideas now work as Ancroit UX director.

Wow, I wish more companies were doing that kind of things. We can never have enough tinkerers.

The galaxy rendering is really awful. It looks nothing like an Android app.

You would have to be extremely, shamelessly dishonest to pretend that the rangeCheck is not extremely simple.
It is just 3 basic if statements that throw exceptions.
Any programmer, even a beginner, can write that function in 10 minutes (more like 1 for someone qualified).

Is google authorized to pay Oracle in nickels ?
Because I would pay to see that.

According to rumors, the Nexus Tablet (which has been confirmed by Eric Schmidt in december) the 250$ 7" Asus tablet that disappeared since the WMC is the Nexus Tablet.
Other rumors stated that Google & Acer are retooling this tablet in order to bring it to the 200$ price point.
These are just rumors, but they all fit. Btw, Schmidt told that this tablet would be launched in the first half of 2012, so Google I/O seems likely.
Just keep in mind that according to rumors, the nexus s was supposed to be a dual core phone.

Sadly I think it is just the consequence of the insane popularity of Youtube. It is a bit insane to see these comments as the most upvoted ones, especially when it has nothing to do with the video. I don’t know if it is possible to fix this without censoring comments massively.
Replacing these top voted comments by comments coming from your google+ circles could be a solution.

Sturgeon’s Law in action here :-)

Oh, I did not knew it existed ! Thanks for the tip !

This. Most good Android ToDo apps provide synchronization with Google Tasks and I don’t think anything else than the fancy Task API is needed on the mobile front. But on the desktop, task looks more like an hack than a real product.