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Not really. PowerPoint pales in comparison to Keynote on either iOS or OS X. Keynote is to PS4 as PowerPoint is to Atari. The smoothness of transitions and animations don’t even compare.

Also nice of MSFT to gloss over the AirPlay feature with an Apple TV to actually present those nifty presentations.

But all’s fair in tech ads that embarrass the other. Now that Apple is eating Microsoft’s lunch — with an OS that’s garnered almost no attention and a double-digit decline in PC sales — they have no choice but to attack Apple at all costs.

Microsoft is losing out everywhere. Phones, tablets, PCs, search, social media, the app market, music; if it weren’t for Office and their enterprise solutions (SQL, Active Directory, .NET, SharePoint, etc) they’d probably be in the same boat as HTC. They even managed to flub their one successful business, Xbox, with the disappointing Xbox One reveal by focusing WAY too much on TV.

Silverlight anyone?

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Interesting. So you in your opinion getting sports scores, NY Times updates and tweets pumped into your eyeball will increase your intelligence. Glass equates to a novel or textbook. That’s fascinating stuff there.

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You’re also missing the point entirely. With a book I choose to open and read or close and file away to focus on another task/person. However Glass is designed to force feed information into your view so long as you’re wearing it. And if you’re not wearing it and an alert comes through then the purpose of Glass’ existence is shattered.

I can’t imagine fitting Glass back onto your face and nose, bobbing your head backwards to wake it up then swiping through the interface or saying, “Okay Glass. Show me that last alert” is faster than pulling your smartphone from your pocket and clicking the sleep/wake button and viewing your recent notifications.

Again, I can see Glass being more purposeful for people hang-gliding, for surgeons or doctors, or even better an HUD for videogames but for getting tweets and doing Google searches by speaking into the air is not what I classify as innovative or even all that helpful compared to what our smartphones can do (which it requires to work in the first place, which is kinda silly making it nothing more than an overtly expensive accessory to your smartphone).

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I have fond memories of this phone. I never owned it but I salivated over it for months. I remember the wiper-blade when it was raining.

Arguably the last time they were relevant before the iPhone came along.

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I believe someone already confirmed that Kinect will be able to tell who is who, which means it’ll have to store some sort of data to know who’s talking. Doesn’t mean it’s storing everything but it does suggest storing information is part of how it works.

What I find more troubling is that you can’t use the Xbox without Kinect. So basically this thing will be looking at and listening to me regardless of whether I’m using it or not. Don’t know if I’m completely okay with that.

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Glad I’m not the only “One” (sorry, couldn’t help it).

The whole time I felt like I was looking at a 360 or PS3 title. It looked a little better than what current gen consoles can do but not so much better. When I saw Killzone for the PS4 I knew for certain that I was looking at something not capable on today’s consoles.

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Because Sony had the balls to actually show some original IPs in their presentation.

I could really care less what the final box looks like. I want to see the dashboard, the games, the experience. What the system looks like is of less value than what’s inside the box and what it’s capable of.

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I think the bigger point he (or she, no discrimination) is making is that Microsoft decided to come to the stage with a smattering of sequels. No original content or new ideas that makes the console stand out as worthy of upgrading.

Sony may not have shown off the actual box but they at least showed off a lot of original IP. Outside of Killzone everything was pretty much new. Knack, Second Son, Drive Club, Watch Dogs and concept titles from Capcom and Square Enix showed that the PS4 is actually worthy of some truly incredible and original content while also showing off the massive amounts of power the PS4 will be capable of.

All Microsoft managed to do was show was a big black box.

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The other One but not that One

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What I see is our inability to disconnect, of being a slave to the technology rather than the technology being a tool that improves our lives.

You can take off a tool belt, you can park a car in the garage and yes, you can actually put your phone down, put on vibrate or even (gasp!!) turn it off. But the point of Glass is to get constant feeds of information streamed into your eyeballs to the point where ignoring it is not an option and taking it off defeats the purpose of its existence.

I’m not so blind that I don’t see the benefits of this in medicine, archaeology, sports or other mediums but the implementation of Glass has so far shown me nothing of value. Getting updates that normally appear on my phone that now appear across my eyeball isn’t any more helpful, just more distracting.

Doesn’t mean the technology won’t mature but as it exists today it’s a complete waste of time.

Also doesn’t help that it already has a derogatory connotation of “glasshole” to describe its user. People with bluetooth headsets are annoying enough. This only exacerbates the plugged in 24/7 community of douche bags.

Got it?

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