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lol wow

about 2 hours ago on Really, guys? This Samsung Ad? What is this?

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Have you guys ever thought about going the arstechnica route? Offering a premium membership that gives you some additional community and site features but has zero ads?

about 2 hours ago on Really, guys? This Samsung Ad? What is this?

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I found that comment funny and pretty biased. If you try using an iPad 1 with iOS 5 today…good luck getting safari to keep more than two tabs open. If you open a 3rd tab or more, whenever you go back to the others the page has to refresh because there’s not enough ram to save that tab’s content.

about 2 hours ago on One year later, the Nexus 7 has gone from the best to worst tablet I’ve ever owned

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I thought Halo 4 was one of the best Halo campaigns I’ve ever played. Probably only second to Halo 1. My only real criticism is that for practically the entire campaign all you’re doing is going somewhere to pull some lever…but, that’s pretty much Halo. The story, action, enemies, etc…all really great. Its too bad that it doesn’t get more love for whatever reason.

about 2 hours ago on I just finished the Halo 4 campaign, What did you think of it? 1 reply 1 recommend

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Supposedly you’ll be able to tell your Kinect to pause, and it’ll turn itself off/go into a sleep state until you “wake” it back up.

As for the rest of your article…not much has changed here from last gen. The only real difference is that Microsoft will now be able to find out what TV content you’re watching – valuable data I’m sure, but its not like this is anything new to anyone – your cable company and advertisers already knew all that info. If you’re really concerned about that, you don’t have to plug in your cable box into your One.

1 day ago on The creepy potential of the Xbox One: How the pieces come together. 1 recommend

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If Microsoft is smart, they’ll have a press event before the One’s launch. They then need to spend 15 minutes running through EXACTLY how used games work, how the 10 family members thing works, how authentication works, what happens if you get banned, what happens if you’re console is stolen, etc. Then they need to open up the floor for Q&A, and just let journalists ask every single question imaginable. And here’s the key – they need to answer each question as best as possible. No “I don’t know”…no “we’re not sure”…no “we’ll announce this later.”

Its silly that they need to do that, but its a much better PR move than updating their website with evasive jargon and not letting anybody at Microsoft either know or talk about questions that journalists and users have.

1 day ago on Used Games on the Xbox One Explained (As Well As Anyone Can Currently) 1 reply

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Let me just say this:

When I first started reading the verge (pretty soon after they officially became “the verge”), I added them to my google reader subscriptions. They pumped out 30-50 articles a day, and I read every. single. last. one. of them. I’d watch the vergecast, enjoy on the verge, follow in the hype for paul leaving the internet, ect.

Now? Over a year later? I find myself hitting “j” a lot when the verge pops up in my google reader list after quickly scanning the headline. If I do open an article to read it, its usually to quickly scan through the article and then jump to the comments to see what others are saying. Essentially – the verge has quickly gone from a must-read-every-single-article-now! kind of feeling to…meh. I don’t really enjoy the content anymore. That might just be me and my tastes, but I don’t think I’m the only one. Now that they’ve added a lot of “culture culture” stuff and science stuff and politics stuff…meh. I don’t care anymore. When I switch over to feedly in a few weeks, I’m thinking about just unsubscribing from the verge and just occasionally coming here to check on what’s new.

tl;dr – the site has grown stale over the last year, with them covering/featuring to much non tech crap that is just not enjoyable to read.

1 day ago on TheVerge’s pathetic WWDC coverage 1 reply 2 recommends

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Lol

5 days ago on Lucas and Spielberg on storytelling in games: 'it's not going to be Shakespeare'

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The greatest story of the 20th century was a happy accident? Yikes. The hate is strong in this one.

Not saying that it was all Lucas or that he didn’t have writers to help him, but if you watch ANY of the special features on the star wars films, you’ll understand that not only the story, but the look, feel, sounds, everything – is all controlled/okayed by lucas. If anything, he micro managed the look and sound too much. That’s why he wanted to go back and “fix” the original trilogy.

5 days ago on Lucas and Spielberg on storytelling in games: 'it's not going to be Shakespeare' 3 replies 8 recommends

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I think an interesting discussion (which would be a 928 vs. 925 discussion) is whether the wireless charging loss is worth the gain in lightness.

Personally, I’d rather have the wireless charging (the 928 isn’t really that heavy), but I haven’t even held a 925 so I don’t really know. I’d like to see what the mobile guys (chis/tom/vlad/etc) think about the tradeoff.

5 days ago on Nokia Lumia 925 review 1 reply

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Could you specify camera and hardware improvements? It sounds pretty generic.

Also fwiw (although I know this doesn’t matter at the time of review), but GDR2 will be coming to the 928.

5 days ago on Nokia Lumia 925 review 2 replies

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Sounds like you’ve had a different experience than I have.

If that’s really the case, then that is a bad thing. One of the most impressive parts about the apple stores is that whether you like them or not – they offer the same exact experience no matter what store you’re in.

5 days ago on Microsoft and Best Buy team up to create a 'Windows Store' inside 600 retail locations

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I respond to some of your comments in my reply below.

As far as the whole “trimmed in aluminum” and better camera optics…I don’t really get that. I think that comes down to personal preference rather than it being a better phone. The camera optics bit…the 925 has an extra lense and the 928 has the xenon flash. I think I’d be hard pressed to argue that one is “better.” They’re just very, very slightly different.

5 days ago on Nokia Lumia 925 review 1 reply

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They 928 and 925 are as similar as the 920 is to the 925. Yet Tom discusses that plenty in his review.

The reception issue is really weird. Both my wife and I have the 928 and we have no reception/sound problems. I’m also not sure what the “old software” you’re referring to.

As far as me reading, yeah, I read. Several review/articles/news articles seem to favor the 928 over the 925. Similar to the HTC One and GS4 debate. So in short…it would have been interesting to see why the verge prefers the 925 over the 928.

5 days ago on Nokia Lumia 925 review 1 reply

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ElderlyWoman already covered the icons bit.

As far as searching, opening apps. You’ll obviously pin the ones you need to start, otherwise, you can jump to them pretty quickly in the all apps list.

5 days ago on Nokia Lumia 925 review 1 reply

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GDR2 has very minor updates (like bringing back the radio). Also, Tom didn’t actually discuss the GDR2 update, soooo I’m not really sure how that factors into the score.

5 days ago on Nokia Lumia 925 review 1 reply

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The 928’s design or feel is bad?

Software in both is the same unless I’m missing something (they’re both nokia lumia windows phones!).

Reduced weight is b/c wireless charging was removed. That’s pretty much a tradeoff – yeah you get a lighter phone but you can’t charge it wirelessly. The 928 actually nailed this bit really well – its lighter than the 920 AND still has wireless charging.

5 days ago on Nokia Lumia 925 review 1 reply 1 recommend

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Because its another version of the 920 that was just released a few weeks ago?

It’s silly to discuss the 925 and not the 928, especially when Chris ripped the 928 so much and Tom is lauding the 925.

5 days ago on Nokia Lumia 925 review 1 reply

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Ctrl+F: 928. 0 results.

How did you do this whole review without once mentioning/comparing to the 928? Especially when the difference in score is a whole point?

5 days ago on Nokia Lumia 925 review 2 replies

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What?

5 days ago on I'm afraid XBox One is DOA.

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Is there video footage of this somewhere?

5 days ago on Steven Spielberg and George Lucas predict ‘massive implosion’ in film industry

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Have you ever been inside a physical Microsoft store? Or purchased from microftstore.com?

They only sell top notch devices, and they’re all “Microsoft signature” devices…meaning there’s no crapware installed and its configured/setup without adding on extra fees. They also sell Microsoft complete as a warranty service that includes drop/spill coverage.

5 days ago on Microsoft and Best Buy team up to create a 'Windows Store' inside 600 retail locations 2 replies 14 recommends

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Smart approach, I’m sure the cost to build/setup/train/market individual stores and get up to that number is way higher than just making a deal with best buy. Its a win win for both companies.

5 days ago on Microsoft and Best Buy team up to create a 'Windows Store' inside 600 retail locations 1 reply 1 recommend

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There are approximately 50 million Xbox Live accounts, so lets say roughly 50 million current owners (we’ll go with the lower number even though there have been about 80 million sold over life).

If even 5 million of those users (so 10%) decide to upgrade to the Xbox One…that’s not DOA. Yeah, there are lots of concerns with the One, but some people (like me) don’t really care about the DRM or the used games issues. They just want to enjoy the next gen experience and play the awesome games we’ve seen at E3.

tl;dr – there’s no way this is DOA!

5 days ago on I'm afraid XBox One is DOA. 1 reply

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Not on the one, where if you buy the game on disc, you’ll only actually put it in your console once so it can be installed.

Since all One games will have day 1 digital availability, I’ll probably buy all my games digitally…I doubt I’m the only one.

7 days ago on Don't flinch: the new Kinect could be the end of motion gimmicks 1 reply 2 recommends

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As far as I know, bing powers all yahoo search – both US and international.

Where do you live?

7 days ago on iOS 7: Siri and Bing

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FYI, yahoo search is bing.

7 days ago on iOS 7: Siri and Bing 1 reply