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Sorry Google; you can Keep it to yourself

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Re: Sorry Google; you can Keep it to yourself

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Post by socillion »

schuke wrote: post #162
fakeer wrote: post #134

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I am from India and so I grew up on British English and have stuck to that. I was gifted a Oxford Pocket Dictionary when I was a kid, by an uncle. I practically learned my English with that dictionary, had it till recently when I passed it down to my niece(who is in 5th grade as of now). Now, you'll have to trust me on these two statements: 1. I did learn " sth 'can' be used for something " from that old good little…

Same here in China. I grew up learning English using mostly British textbooks and sth is introduced to us quite early, pretty much like xyz in algebra. I'm actually quite surprised to find out it's perhaps not that common in the US.

In my experience you'd be hard pressed to find 'sth' used in the US (same for sb), most people would type it out to avoid ambiguity with 'south' and other words. In SMS and other short formats, phonetic spellings like 'sumthin' are more common.

I've only ever seen South abbreviated as S, never as sth.

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Post by myko »

anigbrowl wrote: post #121
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #108

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I guess? The fact that the CM team doesn't even generate 10.1 builds for the Passion is a pretty good indicator that it's too weak. Or HTC won't upgrade the graphics drivers.

That's probably the case, although I'm a bit lost on the distinction between what GN does and the regular reminders from my calendar/mail client etc. It's powerful enough to run maps with little 3d buildings and stuff, so I've never been wholly clear on why it's stuck on Android 2.3.

The Nexus One? It barely has enough on device storage for 2.3 :(

Re: Sorry Google; you can Keep it to yourself

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Post by nicky0 »

brian_cloutier wrote: post #122
MatthewPhillips wrote: post #16

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How is Now strategic?

Google's corporate mission is to organize the world's information. Taken from http://www.google.com/landing/now/ > Google Now gets you just the right information at just the right time. Google Now extends the mission to include personal information. The plan is to eventually know what you want before you know you want it. How could that be any more strategic?

Google's corporate mission is to sell advertising.

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Post by danleech »

curiousfiddler wrote: post #55

If at this point Google reinstates Reader, I can tell you they will win many hearts and goodwill. I don't remember a product being brought back from grave and if they were to do it, they will be viewed as a genuinely considerate company (IMO).

I hope Google don’t renege. Now they’ve said they are shuttering Reader it has made the market for alternatives viable again. Developers are actually building real alternatives for us to switch to, which is a good thing.

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Post by RexRollman »

Personally, I have grown weary of the Google intelligence umbrella. I recently closed my Google account, as my CR-48 finally died, and moved my email to another company. I use Evernote for my notekeeping and Flickr for photos. I use Google only for search these days.

Now, would it be nice to have all of that under one company? Sure, but there are too many privacy issues when doing so under Google.

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Post by spinchange »

Shooti wrote: post #153
spinchange wrote: post #138

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>Seems unlikely they'll drop it given their approach to iOS so far has been to infiltrate the ecosystem with their own Google apps Yes, and syncing Calendar data with Apple's calendar App is not this strategy. Releasing a standalone "Calendar" app for iOS to keep it accessible, controlled, and branded on iOS devices after it stops working and Apple doesn't bother to request whitelisting but promotes iCloud instead, i…

Not sure why Google would block themselves server-side if they themselves wanted the current iOS 6 account-sync set up to continue. Apple doesn't really factor into it at all. Google breaking off into their own Calendar app is a possibility, but its not clear cut that they would do this since there's a definite "stickiness" to having the Calendar sync option pre-checked as soon as the user adds his/her GMail account.

Look, the announcement was clear that they are sunsetting the CalDAV API and if someone wants to continue using it, they need to make a request to Google, and explain why. (Via the form you linked to previously)

One would hope Google has enough sense just to keep this working with no hiccups for Apple, but it also is not clear cut that they will from the information we've been given. (Or that Apple gives a shit either way)

It's not like they are seeking feedback on how to improve CalDAV, they're moving away from it.

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Post by Sayter »

anigbrowl wrote: post #121
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess? The fact that the CM team doesn't even generate 10.1 builds for the Passion is a pretty good indicator that it's too weak. Or HTC won't upgrade the graphics drivers.

That's probably the case, although I'm a bit lost on the distinction between what GN does and the regular reminders from my calendar/mail client etc. It's powerful enough to run maps with little 3d buildings and stuff, so I've never been wholly clear on why it's stuck on Android 2.3.

The system partition on the Nexue One is only 145 MB.

Re: Sorry Google; you can Keep it to yourself

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Post by ams6110 »

yareally wrote: post #166
MatthewPhillips wrote: post #16

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How is Now strategic?

I used it on vacation a lot the other week. Just say "Navigate me to x" or "Directions to y" or "Find the nearest z" and you get it right away in Google Maps/Navigation. Probably my favorite non-passive feature of it. Then when staying at the hotel, it knows I'm staying there and tells me when I'm driving elsewhere how far away I am from it with traffic and how to go back via a notification. Other times, if you call…

This kind of thing probably works well in major markets. Last time I used google naviation it took me to a vacant lot half a mile from where I wanted to go. Another time it took me on a convoluted route that included cutting through two private apartment parking lots for a destination that turned out to be literally around the corner and down the road from where I started. This is not uncommon in my part of the US (midwest). I don't use navigation anymore, I look at the maps and pick my own routes.

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Post by whatprojectnext »

czr80 wrote: post #196
mbreese wrote: post #21

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Everyone assumes that this was a big strategic decision to scrap Reader and ditch RSS. But from what I've heard, it was more of a practical decision to drop an unmaintained project because no one knew how to update it for new backend infrastructure. But I'm sure that they misjudged the importance that people put into Reader. All in all, it seems like a wasted opportunity and a massive amount of lost good will.

That may be true as the reason, but I cannot believe they could misjudge the importance of Reader to its users - they have all the logs and know exactly what the usage is. They just decided they didn't care enough, and could accept the negative publicity.

Maybe they did look at the logs and decided that Reader usage was low enough (at Google scale) that they did not care.
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