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Huggyface is correct. The pointless mini-review drivel that pops up on these stories belongs somewhere else.

Steam will work on Windows 7 and XP unlike the Windows 8 app store. It also runs on OSX and soon Linux. What exactly is Microsoft supposed to do about it?

The Windows app store will be Windows 8 only on the desktop so Steam can serve the hundreds of millions of users on the older versions. Also, what marketplace comparable to this offering exists for Windows?

They may be concerned about fragmenting their ecosystem since virtually no apps will be "cross-platform" between Android and the desktop without a significant rewrite.

1)Maybe whatever events that led to them doing this didn't exist 2 years ago.

2)That seems like more reason to have an app store as you can weed that kind of stuff out.

They will use Steam Greenlight a community driven process to vet apps for inclusion. Basically you submit and if the community wants it they get it.

3)Since most PC users will be on Windows 7 and XP for a while after Windows 8 is released there will still be a huge market for Steam even if by some miracle RT just took over.

The demise of Loki was informative for a variety of reasons none of which should lead you to conclude "how few Linux users will buy full priced games". The first lesson to gather from Loki was that in order to get people to buy your games, you need a solid well-oiled distribution network. Stocking a few titles in Electronic Boutique is not a recipe for success. Steam is different as it puts Linux titles on a level playing field. I don't have to schlep to a store and hope that they will have the title I'm looking for as I can see it right there on Steam. And I don't have to worry about a store stocking just the big name stuff as Steam will stock it all and all the time.

Another issue that Loki contended with was the fact that most of their games ran at a lower framerate than the Windows counterpart. Most serious gaming fans want to use their hardware to its maximum potential especially the FPS multi-player twitch gamers. Valve has a lot more leverage in this regard than Loki ever did. We all know (because they said so) they are working with the major GPU players to get better drivers made. But also, they don't just port games, they make them. The Source engine is very popular and they have already tweaked it significantly so not only is it competitive with how it runs on Windows but it actually surpasses it in maximum frames per second.

Another thing Loki dealt with was Linux users were a bit more idealistic in the 90's. We still held out hope that AAA game titles would just "appear" on Linux. Fast forward to the present day and I doubt many actually believe this. The problem back then was that if you expected Free top tier games to just appear you had less incentive to actually buy. I think Linux users are a bit more pragmatic now and are much more willing to pay for a proprietary binary as it's pretty clear that that's the only way you're going to play. So this is a psychological barrier Valve doesn't have to overcome anymore.

Basically, I think Valve is approaching this with the same methodical precision that Tesla is approaching the electric car space. Look at the problems that exist in an objective way and devise solutions one by one until you achieve success. Valve may still falter but it won't be for ignoring any lessons Loki could have provided.

When I'm in my office, I can hear somebody coming so it is rare that I'm caught completely by surprise. For something like this to work, I'd want at least a 3 second delay and notification before the camera turned on. That might help some.

"The flaw is that no one wants to fix anything because fixing things is boring"

I've always thought this was the funniest thing as I relish digging into a piece of open source software that I love to use and fixing little flaws. Just this morning I wrote a patch for guake the drop down terminal that allows the width to be resized on the fly as it was broken on Unity in Ubuntu 12.04. The sense of accomplishment at taking a piece of broken software and making it "right" is phenomenal for me. I guess different strokes for different folks.

Considering FF3 is available for download both on the iOS and the Android app stores I'd say it is extremely unlikely that most of the people who pitched in on kickstarter and actually care about Squenix games think it is exclusive. You're nitpicking marketing literature and there aren't even any real nits to pick. To use an analogy you don't expect Nissan to be sure to point out that Ford, Chevrolet, and Dodge have better towing capacity than the next Titan. That's not their job and it isn't misleading at all.

"well intentioned"

That's the problem. I'm not sure how a reasonable person can read the outright venom displayed in comment after comment all over the internet and then with a straight face say that it is somehow well intentioned. I don't know why so many people hate anything different that threatens the status quo. I guess it's just human nature. The phenomenon seems to manifest itself particularly in the consumer tech space though. The incumbents get praise heaped on them for doing little more than tweaking and renaming their e-mail service but let a group of people throw some pocket change at a video game console that isn't backed by a multi-billion dollar corporation and all hell breaks loose. I hope the Ouya succeeds if for no other reason than for the haters to have to wipe the egg from their faces. But who am I kidding? They'll just find some other underdog to kick.

Menu Express was doing this in Nashville 15 years ago and they would pick up practically anything you wanted and deliver it to your door. Drivers had CB radios and everything.

Any phone with a 480x320 screen and free on contract (at least in the US) is low end. The iPhone 4 would be midrange and the 4S would be high but not the highest end.

Sme of us have tried both and love 'em both. Galaxy Nexus phone and iPad is a hard to beat combination in my opinion.

First of all that's a straw man as obviously all Free software developers don't feel the way he does. Secondly, it occurs to me that maybe people don't use Gnome 3 because, like me, they just don't like it. I don't like the way it looks, nor do I like the way it works. These days I go between Gnome 2, Unity, and an Open box/fbpanel setup on my different computers. I'm not in love with any of my desktops at the moment but I like them all better than Gnome 3.

I can't speak for the GP and I haven't used Phonegap but the problems I have encountered trying to use webviews in apps revolve around touch latency and animation. When a user touches an element on the screen they expect instant response and I haven't seen that in any app using web technology. Also, animation needs to be comparable to what you see natively. Even trying to scroll images without scrolling the whole view is a recipe for lag and choppiness. I don't want any part of that in my apps.

And the GP was giving his honest opinion. An opinion that is held by many people I've interacted with in the open source community regarding Oracle. Maybe instead of browbeating him over it you could consider encouraging Oracle to pay attention to things like this and do something about recovering their image. BTW, it isn't illegal in any jurisdiction I am aware of to harbor personal feelings towards brands and companies. That's what marketing is all about anyway.

I never knew it was the "Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect" but I've been using this exact line of reasoning for many years when discussing the validity of stories read and watched in the media. Interestingly I discovered it as a kid reading a newspaper article about video games something I was very much into at the time. The were talking about the Sega Genesis and the Super Nintendo and at least half of the article's "facts" were just flat wrong and many of the opinions were far left field of what a legitimate gamer would really think. That's when I made the connection. If this story which is something that I am intimately familiar is so utterly wrong then...what about the things I don't know about. That was about the time I stopped paying so much attention to the general media.

I didn't know it had a fancy name though.

Since it is an open source app, couldn't you just compile it yourself? Or maybe drop a friendly suggestion to the devs to release an x86 binary.

How is that Google's fault though? How many modern mobile devices have completely open drivers including wifi, camera, accelerometer, bluetooth, and GPU? Exactly none. Even the raspberry pi has binary blobs. It doesn't make sense to blame Google for not being able to provide what doesn't exist.

"When I was testing a samsung galaxy s2"

I would not consider the S2 as being in any way definitive of "Android". The only Android devices that I would attach that label to are the ones with Nexus in the name. As far as running apps from the sdcard, neither the Nexus S, the Galaxy Nexus, nor the Nexus 7 even have an sdcard slot and the Nexus 7 and Galaxy Nexus have full access for apps to the entirety of internal memory, e.g., if you have a 32 GB device, you have access to whatever's left over of that 32 after the room set aside for the system so accessing the "sdcard" is a moot point despite there being a mount point for it for backward compatibility.

Is that supposed to be funny? No Jellybean devices have shipped to the general public yet the source has been released. Also, AOSP is not a sub-set of Android, AOSP is Android. Anything else is an add-on including the Google Apps.

I would imagine I'm about as much of a "power user" as anyone else on here and I couldn't care less about either of the things you just mentioned. Making a big deal out of the file copy dialog on a new OS does seem a bit over the top.

No problem. Just gives the non-biased people a chance to counter the FUD off the top so a real discussion can take place below.

"The nexus 7 will be sabotaged by google's crappy customer service."

Dream on. This is just how the Nexus 7 is being sold right now. Best Buy, Future Shop, and Amazon are already putting in their orders and will sell the vast majority of these devices. Google will be a bit player in the Nexus 7 market and their customer service for better or worse will be a non-issue as far as how well overall sales go.

Of all the mobile electronics I've ever had, I remember my N770 the most fondly and wistfully. next to my then modern HTC Apache Windows Mobile device, it was like an artifact from the future. I coded up several great apps for it in python including a personal finances ledger and a price checker using the Amazon API. The thing was amazing. Even though it has since died and I've moved on to Android, I miss it.

I think the main difference is that if these routers came from the factory with FLOSS software that I could recompile and reload onto the device then Cisco would have a much harder time actually enforcing their particular implementation.

Well, the fact that you mention "tied together by a proprietary program" means you guys are talking about two different things. He's talking about BSD vs. GPL whereas you are talking about "something" vs. some GPL/proprietary hybrid. Seems something like a strawman to me.

Samsung makes all the Android money because they make the best Android phones. It isn't that hard to understand. Second point I'll make is Nokia's windows phones are competing with Android so pretending that they are in some different "pool" is just lying to yourself. Third, if you read the article the guy is saying Nokia makes good hardware and could bring that to Android possibly beating Samsung in the process.

You're One To Talk Being Worse Than RecoiledSnake.you Are Probably One Of The Most Obnoxious Google Haters On This Site. Also I Just Looked Through Tysons Post History And He Is In No Way A Google Cheerleader Or Microsoft Hater. Consider Growing Up.

P.s. Ignore My Capital Letters. Jellybean doesn't work well with Swype yet.

It's been a meme all over the internet for a while now. Its quite frankly childish and annoying. You would think a place like hacker news would be above that.