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Won’t SOMEBODY think of the hotdog cutters!!

about 20 hours ago on Finger-saving SawStop has been around for a decade, but tool companies aren't interested

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The point is that Google started out with this whole open platform thing as a central strategy. Apple has always been ‘closed’ so anyone buying from them knew full well what they were getting into. Google on the other hand started open, now is still talking all about open, but is closing off their services pretty systematically.

In short, the reason no one mentions Apple is because it has nothing to do with them!

1 day ago on Google Play Music All Access hands-on: should you switch from Spotify or Rdio?

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But I bet you they sell a few more metric-shit-tonnes of their lower-end phones.

1 day ago on Windows Phone overtakes BlackBerry to claim third place in 2013 smartphone shipments 1 reply 4 recommends

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Lest say you’re a lifelong super vocal Windows fan, but one time for a little while you decided to try out Android, but you didn’t like it very much and went back to Windows.

You suddenly become super famous and your old University wants a picture to put up of you for all eternity, and they pick one of you using Android and not Windows, what would all those people to whom you’ve talked to about Windows over and over (and over) think of that?

This isn’t about the fact that whatshername can’t go to the ball dressed up every so often, it’s that this picture is supposed to represent her in Disney cannon for the rest of time, and it’s so far removed from what her actual character is.

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Yup. Nightfall might want to get his/her eyes checked.

This is what Apple maps looks like http://www.apple.com/ca/ios/maps/ for reference.

3 days ago on Google Maps overhaul leaks ahead of I/O conference 1 recommend

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I’d love to hear too.

The best that I could find is ‘RemoteControl for Earphones’ which gives you play/pause/skip unless you want to get into 5 or 6 clicking for volume. No volume control support at all on a Nexus 4 with Apple’s older iPhone-included headphones. The app isn’t the prettiest,clearly designed with Android 2.x in mind, but it works and doesn’t have any ads, so it gets a thumbs up. Doing things like double-clicking isn’t nearly as forgiving as it is in iOS, but such is life.

I have to say, again, this is my big Really!?! moment when switching from an iPhone to N4, how can super-basic stuff like this NOT work out of the box!

4 days ago on [Recommendation] Best inline remote app for earphones 2 replies

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A big part of iOS’s ‘smoothness’ is that Apple prioritized the user interface (and its smoothness) over features. Android started out prioritizing features. Now Apple has been adding features to it’s OS, and Google has been trying to get Android to run smooth. They are meeting somewhere in the middle.**

• The usual disclaimer that’s required around these parts… my personal opinion only, void where prohibited, must be 18 to respond, not valid in Quebec.

4 days ago on A Question on the current working of iOS. 1 reply