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Why would you expect this to work on a first party nexus device?! Don’t be silly like an Apple fanboy, this is the Google way where you never know if anything will work right. Whether its editing symbolic links just to make mp3 storage work or watching google voice integration crash your dialer repeatedly or simply not being able to run the latest apps because your device is arbitrarily excluded for no apparent reason even though it’s a first party app on a first party device, you can be assured that you’re enjoying the ultimate Google experience.
But seriously, I finally switched to iOS and now oddly enough I don’t get to enjoy the Google experience anymore.

6 days ago on Exclusive: Inside Hangouts, Google's big fix for its messaging mess

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Welcome to the world of android.

6 days ago on Exclusive: Inside Hangouts, Google's big fix for its messaging mess 1 recommend

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Without SMS nobody will use it because people want to use one messaging app that works with all their contacts regardless of whether or not their contacts are registered for the same service. iMessage works whether or not your chat partner also has iMessage because it has both SMS and MMS support. Otherwise why would anybody use this app? The user base isn’t as broad as entrenched players so why would anybody use it without SMS integration? I wouldn’t hold my breath either, Google was supposed to integrate MMS into google voice like two years ago but they never did.

6 days ago on Exclusive: Inside Hangouts, Google's big fix for its messaging mess 1 recommend

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The lack of an ad card slot is not really a negative in my opinion, google remove the slot from the nexus 4 for good reason, ad card space is nearly unusable on android. Whereas on iOS storage is one big pool on android it’s partitioned off into application space, media space, and then the nearly unusable ad card space. You can’t run apps off of SD without idiotic hacks and even google music refuses to store it’s mp3s on the SD card, instead eating up internal memory. Worse yet on some phones it would mistakenly use app partition space.
Storage is far more elegantly done on iOS and that’s what Google was shooting for by dumping the sd card slot. Having to make a symbolic link on your galaxy siii to trick google music into storing on the ad card, only on find that any updates break your symbolic link and cause you to instantly run out of space is a crappy experience.

6 days ago on Google turns the Samsung Galaxy S4 into a Nexus phone, coming June 26th for $649 4 replies 13 recommends

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The fine is per kid and tied to your income to prevent you from abusing the system just because you’re wealthy. If it was a flat amount the law wouldn’t even punish the super rich because a fine that someone making 5000 dollars a year would struggle to pay is a joke to millionaires. It’d be cheaper than taxes in most places. The number goes so high for him because he makes a crapload of money and had seven kids.

11 days ago on Award-winning director accused of breaking China's 'one child' policy, faces $26 million fine 1 recommend

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It was only easy to rent an apartment in NYC back then because NYC was on the brink of bankruptcy, the crime rate was through the roof with a whole bunch of murders daily, and nobody who could help it wanted to live there. This was the NYC where hookers walked around times square flashing you as you drove by, not the shiny and clean Times Square of today…I’m sure if we made NYC a hellhole again it’d be really easy to get an apartment but that kinda defeats the purpose of getting an apartment in a nice place.

12 days ago on Urban Compass: can a startup finally fix the nightmare of renting an apartment in NYC?

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After stupid paying for a Windows 8 upgrade for my non-touchscreen laptop and dealing with nonstop issues with the new metro interface and apps (before giving up and just installing classic shell like everyone else) Microsoft isn’t getting a friggin’ penny of my money for what’s basically a patch to fix the horribleness of Windows 8. Seriously, I would rather downgrade back to Windows 7 if they try to charge for this for people who paid for Windows 8. I’m sure it’s great on a touchscreen but kicking your old school customers in the balls with Windows 8 and then asking for more money isn’t going to go over well.

15 days ago on Windows Blue: Microsoft promises changes based on feedback and a holiday release 1 reply 1 recommend

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It’s better with nitrous for JavaScript but chrome on iOS is awful at memory management compared to safari.

15 days ago on Gmail for iOS update lets users automatically open links in Chrome, YouTube, or Safari

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He was already fired so it’s more that he never returned the laptop and started downloading porn and movies onto it. Probably a crime anyway but they banned him from campus so maybe that’s his excuse for not returning it.

But yeah I’m not sure about this physically bringing data to China thing when you could easily upload whatever you wanted over an encrypted connection if you were a spy.

18 days ago on Accused Chinese spy charged with downloading porn, not NASA secrets