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About stevebgunn
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stevebgunn
On The Verge since Sep 06, 2012
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The account is a checking account – I dont believe they offer credit cards. I havent used ATMs yet. The app is awesome and doesn’t crash / hang like Chase’s + Citibanks. New activity is sent to your phone via push notification and check depositing is much easier than other banks. Only thing to note is that accounts under 30 days old have a 9 day hold on new checks deposited. Goals is a cool feature too and works as well as advertised.
For support there is a contact phone or there is a customer service email portal built into the right sidebar of your account management page. You can email questions / comments or anything and when someone responds you get a push notification about it.
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Laptop: Chromebook Pixel
Tablet: None
Phone: Nexus 4I may switch the phone out for the google edition Xperia Z if that ever materializes because its spec wise the same as the N4, has onscreen buttons and has TMobile LTE support. Also will likely get the N7 once its refreshed.
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This is a chromebook pixel review, but there is some important insight into Chrome OS in here. Worth a read http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/16/4436452/anandtech-chromebook-pixel-review
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Samsung bought the first million copies of the album to give away for free. He basically went platinum before releasing the CD. Sounds like an excellent deal to me.
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Endorsements. This has very little (if anything) to do with MS
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Recommended Cheshire3's comment in AnandTech Chromebook Pixel Review
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Recommended McVillain's comment in AnandTech Chromebook Pixel Review
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Recommended Riley.Barnett's comment in AnandTech Chromebook Pixel Review
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Thanks for the link. I knew pixlr exists but most of what I would need to do remotely for work is Layout based. InDesign is what im mainly looking to replace.
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Does the Galaxy Nexus count?
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I gave my series 3 to my mom when i upgraded – she loves it.
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I agree with this. My use case is mostly filled with the chromebook pixel. I have purposely unplugged my windows computer to see if I could do it. If google docs gets an upgrade, about 85% of my entire computer usage will be covered. The things I miss off the top of my head are Office (I use skydrive’s web editor to work on word docs + open office integration for Google Drive is coming apparently), Creative Suite and a good IDE. Only thing on my list that doesnt seem feasible to expect is Creative Suite.
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^ this. Xbox One for me primarily for the exclusives (whole games and DLC) but also because of the controller. The Xbox controller is more ergonomic to me since the two control sticks aren’t right next to each other and because they have some “resistance” when you move them.
The media features look cool too.
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Ok, as a consumer (that primarily uses android), I have to say that was awesome. As a marketer that was a master class on how to do things right.
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Recommended TeflonFong's comment in Sony: 'PlayStation 4 won't impose any new restrictions on used games'
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Not that I agree with Microsoft, but which console do you think makes more developers happy in the long run – probably the one with DRM.
This is an interesting outcome. A lot of people thought both consoles would have DRM or neither would. Now there seems to be a clear better console for consumers and a clear winner for the publishers looking to line their pockets.
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Recommended silellak's comment in iOS7: Still no equivalent of Defaults and Intents...
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Recommended btoope's comment in PRISM data collection happens without tech companies' knowledge, says Washington Post
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GaaS, a thing that has amounted to not much at all and has existed for a while, is being hyped and sold as some kind of console specific black magic by MS, they don’t even currently have the infrastructure for you to be saying they have set some kind of unprecedented GaaS server standard here, Gaikai (another Nvidia GaaS user) currently holds the Guiness world record for that.
You went way too far into technicalities. Im not saying games as a service hasnt existed before. Im suggesting that Microsoft is thinking about it differently. Instead of streaming whole games to a set top or something similar (onlive / gaikai) the local xbox one plays a game, and the cloud assists. Correct me if Im wrong but I dont think thats been done before. In addition to this, not only is microsoft thinking differently, they are releasing a whole platform around this idea to ensure that developers have a large installed base.
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what stops a PC, xbox 360, PS3 from offering this tech today?
Probably the fact that Microsoft didnt already deploy 300,000 servers specifically for this task. The infrastructure isnt there so developers can’t count on it. This time around with the Xbox One, Microsoft is setting a standard by building out the infrastructure and giving devs access from day one.
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Recommended xtacee1990's comment in Why the Apple logo behind Macintosh laptops lights up?
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Whether its real or not, I like it!
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Recommended bram's comment in What games do you consider to have timeless graphics?
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I’d be interested to see how many 64gb iPhones Apple sells. I cant see it being a large number or % of total sales per generation. People that need that much storage and are willing to pay for it are in the minority.
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Recommended ryan_socio's comment in HTC One with stock Android announced, launching June 26th for $599 in the US (update)
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the iOS app handles gifs much better (including scrubbing) but i do like the android phone UI better than the iPhone version
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OP: Follow Francois Beaufort on Google+ – he posts frequently about what the ChromeOS team is working on so you can see whats in the pipeline. I agree with your review for the most part. I havent run into some of the issues you’ve had (because its not my use case) but I love my pixel.
https://plus.google.com/100132233764003563318/posts/9NkQRDTCXLo
