falling

He's praising it just because he didn't think of it, being too busy enjoying every news site parroting his whining yesterday.

Actual announcement: "Samsung Electronics has said that it expects its profits to surge 79% in the second quarter as sales of its smartphones continue to grow."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole

Look, I'm a Mac user, but it's time we cut down with this, it makes me sick like the stupid kids on Gizmodo. The Vizio computers look good and they are not Mac clones. They picked the right ideas from Apple that nobody else picked up and they are doing a great job without looking the same.

I’m surprised nobody yet posted the obvious http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com

the difference is hypocrisy.

If you pick a long enough time span everything is eventually transitional.

I think you are not very clear on the meaning of the word disrupt:

interrupt (an event, activity, or process) by causing a disturbance or problem: a rail strike that could disrupt both passenger and freight service.

a disruptive product is a product that breaks with what was before and changes the course of its class of products.

It relates to market share only insofar that it needs enough share of its market to make an impact on it, which is not necessarily a majority.

Now, I think it’s a bit silly trying to say that mobile phones/smartphones/pocketable computers didn’t change after the introduction of the iPhone (see also link below by alanh: http://www.tekgadg.com/storage/Android_before_after_iphone_t..., or check how many phones with and without keys are available today, or the success of the “app store” model).

I don't mean to defend them because this move is stupid, but to help you get this back in control: you can go you your about page and set the @facebook email to be hidden. I had done this in the past and they didn't touch it.

> But, man, talk about being over the top. It's Google's products that he's using for free. They don't owe anything to him.

So how do you feel about Facebook's email fuckup?

Do you call it Google Ad Search?

I think it's stupid to compare the importance of such projects, that can and will be done only by the people in the future, when they will see the effects of what we are doing now.

> he's spending his considerable capital on things likely to make an impact on the world, not on frivolous applications like social networks.

While I agree that the guy is awesome, his projects are inspiring and I dislike this social everything wave as much as you probably do, social networks do make an impact on the world, probably even faster and more direct than space ships.

Well Vic, it is a social network and the integration of identity in all your previous services and it is your response to the Facebook threat, so of course people compare them.

Unfortunately yes, I think the message from Google has not been great it is not well understood.

it became common, when companies design something the techies don't like instead of just sticking to what they are used to, to call it "they think they know what I want better than I do", forgetting that's the whole point of design.

Your compensation for being “used” in the advertisements is using the service, that’s how you pay for it.

It is pretty good instead, you and all the other people making noise over here since yesterday should try it instead of making assumptions just for the love of bashing iOS.

There is much more to a browser than the rendering engine.

It often feels faster than Safari (no matter how much people complain it being THREE TIMES slower than Safari because it doesn’t have JIT), incognito mode is much better as I don’t have to go to Settings every tim, passwords sync, omnibox.

The only big issue is that you cannot set it as default.

I'm not everyone, I have my own opinions.

Oh, come on, really?

the point is that it makes no difference: either way the other manufacturers will not get the subsidization, so they can't match the price point.

I ordered one yesterday as soon as it was available, but I'm a little disappointed at Google forcing me to pay $14 for two day shipping on something that "delivers in 2-3 weeks".

Not really. Andy Rubin said this is being sold at cost, so either Google is paying for Asus' margin or none of them is getting a margin on this device, setting a price point even harder for manufacturers to match.

Street View already works in the WebGL version of Google Maps, with performance no worse than the Flash version.

> lol open up a phone

You don't sound like someone interested in having a conversation. Have a good day.

That’s cool. So in a year we will finally know what this is all about.

What hasn’t happened? live video streaming and two way audio, over commercial cellular networks, using commodity hardware?

I have been doing that with my phone for a few years.

Also, look at the part of the glasses behind the ear, now look at any recent smartphone teardown and see how they compare in size.

I’m sure Project Glass will eventually be interesting, this demo was really cool, but hardly a technological achievement. You can do the same thing by strapping a phone to your helmet.

> live video streaming and two way audio, over commercial cellular networks, using commodity hardware

Isn’t that the description of any smartphone available for a few years now? Remove the screen and you can shrink it almost at will.

Project Glass is interesting, I’m curious about the display tech, but this demo didn’t show anything new.

a bad one too.

> Does Sublime not support ctags? Yet another win for emacs/vim!

sorry. https://github.com/SublimeText/CTags

And why would I want to spend years crafting the perfect .vimrc for myself when tools exist that already do 80% of that better and without any configuration?

I say this with a carefully crafted and organized .vim folder.