lancelott

“Alistair! Alistair! I’m not a window cleaner!”

(I know it’s Alastair)

Me too.

To be fair he didn’t say “all of Apple’s success is due to Marketing”…

Actually, I am a big Apple fan but tend to agree that they indeed manipulate the press. In fact, Jobs bio by Isaacson has several instances where it happened!

This is awesome. I’m using it from now on… Creative Commons license, me hope you used. ;)

So… who are you dissing here!?

Dragon Age? Skyrim?

I wanna’ know!

Yeah… what HE said.

:-)

What’s lame is that us in the east coast have to wait until 12 Pacific Time… :/

That’s strike 1 Schilling!

Stop teasing us, don’t leave again!!!!!
;-)

(Hope you liking the new gig!)

omg = long*

Dunno what happened there….

See but Blizz just proved the opposite of what you claim. Blizz agreed to let Valve have the name as omg as it could remain free for the community – so there is no evidence that they wanted anything more than what they just got.

At the end of the day, I am happy this is all over… I can’t wait for both games to come out anyways! (Blizz All – Stars and Dota 2). I actually haven’t played a DotA game since W3 (and a little bit in SC2). I haven’t played LoL or HoN yet and have friends who play it and say the community is notoriously vicious so I’ll wait for the (probably) more newbie/casual friendly games from Valve and Blizz to come out.

I agree with your recollection… But the one piece that many are missing is that had Blizzard not interfered, Valve would have owned the copyrights to “Dota” and (potentially) make it a hassle for modders to make maps using that name…. All Blizz wanted was to make sure “Dota” (as the name of the ‘genre’) stayed free for the players.

I was hoping this new “Consumer Protection chief” would have come after these scammers too.

Sure, it’s safe to assume most of us Verge readers are informed folks that won’t fall for this bullshit… But what about the uninformed?

Haha… True sir.

Well, thank you.
Pardon me if I blush. :-)

I wholeheartedly agree that the community here is unlike that of any other consumer tech site.

Hackernews and a few other outlets also provide great commentary, but those are niche sites… This one is big and awesome.

I agree that the vergecast shed some light, and although my opinion on the matter hasn’t changed, they did make great points.

And what did Apple copy with Siri? I think in the context of this article:
“buying a company with a niche product and launching it as a feature for your phone” =/= “copying”.