Isn't this just cherrypicked news?

I mean Symbian is still outselling Windows Phone 7 by a large amount on a global scale...

How about reporting how Bada even outsells Windows Phone, or won't Microsoft allow that to be reported?

Meh

FUD.

That is all. It's far more likely that lazy devs can't make chargeable fart apps on Android like they can on iOS, because there are already free ones on Android.

If you going to write crap, then don't expect to be able to charge for it like you can on iOS. On Android, there will already be superior free versions.

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Utter tripe.

Quick..

Get some PR out that says how many Apple shipped and how it's GPU is a gizillion times quicker than Tegra3 devices blah blah blah...

Marginally better?

"No one buys a phone 'cos it's marginally better at recognising voice commands"

From the Gizmodo comparison, I would say Android is substantially better, not only at recognizing what was said, but understanding and returning results quickly.

Considering how much noise Apple have made over Siri, i'm betting there are ALOT of iPhone 4s owners feeling a little cheated right now, when they discover voice commands are not the be-all-and-end-all, and that even if they were, that Android did a much better job of it (and got the results quicker without massive amounts of online data consumption).

hmm

Do we think Apple will give them an honest answer, when given the opportunity to screw over Google?

Digital Copy - What a clusterfook

I had a copy of Senna for Xmas as a Triple Play, (Blu-Ray, DVD and Digital Copy).

Tried to use the Digital Copy on my Asus Transformer, and it was a totally shambolic exercise. I never actually managed to get it to work, I ended up using Handbrake to rip it, which worked just fine...

Didn't we already know this?

Google voice actions is just as good, if not better and won't disappoint, as it's not been hyped to the moon and back.

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/02/siri-vs-android-which-is-better-at-understanding-voice-commands/

All I want to know.

Is how this will affect my Skiing and Summer holidays...

Excellent Stuff

I don't want people using my road as a rat-run, i'm off to OSM to change it into a dead end road, that will at least stop Apple users using it...

Really Apple, using what accounts to basically a user editable Wiki for your mapping solution? Truly pathetic.

OK then

But perhaps Apple should work on their software stack so it can do simple things from Bluetooth 1.0 like send files to other bluetooth devices.

Until they get that fixed, they can have whatever fucking Bluetooth hardware version they want, as the fact is, they don't even have Bluetooth 1.0 yet in software.

..and ebay

You can only sell on ebay if you accept PayPal payments, Google Checkout is not allowed.

I thought I lived in a free and open market, but clearly not...

However what's annoying is the media's current focus on Google, when Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Ebay, Yahoo and pretty much everyone else has been upto the same thing for years too.

Seems Google is an easy target right now. Shame on you.

Galaxy SII is proper 4G (LTE)

This is Apple playing tricks on stupid iPhone owners to make them think they have it...

EPIC FAIL

No second hand games

No Xbox backwards compatability

No Blu-Ray or DVD movie playback.

The current Xbox was a disaster from the technical point of view, it's good to see Microsoft continuing the tradition. All they need now is to pay some "industry experts" that nobody has heard to to proclaim that digital game distribution is the future. Of course when Sony did this with the PSP GO, they didn't have the "industry experts" to back them up...

Well the high end ones are shit

what does that make the entry level ones?

And this is what sucks...

people think companies should FIGHT their opposition

"Microsoft and Apple should hit Amazon, not Google"

Rather than making thier own products better, so they sell themselves. I fucking hate the way inferior shit like Xbox and iPads flood the market, just because Apple and Microsoft have so much money they can buy whoever they want and fight dirty to achieve what they need.

If they designed and engineered their products correctly, they wouldn't need to fight to sell them. Lets have things they way they used to be, the days before you could brainwash the entire planet with the power of the internet.

Microsoft in spin mode.

Perhaps they are looking at feedback and think Windows 8 is going to tank like the new Microsoft Bob.

I absolutely fucking hated the Win8PP and MetroUI on the PC is a disaster.

If I were a Microsoft shareholder, I would be ****REALLY*** worried right now, with Windows Phone tanking spectacularly, Office looking stagnet, and the Gaming division not making enough money in the products lifetime to cover the initial development costs.

Shock horror

Apple bullshit and spin.

Are people really surprised still that what Apple say and what Apple do are two totally different things?

Count me out.

There is no way I will be touching anything with MetroUI. it's a smartphoneUI, so it's totally useless on a desktop PC, and I wouldn't touch Xbox or Windows Phone or a Arm On Windows tablet with a bargepole for other reasons...

Metro-free zone here.

Looks like WIndows7 is the end of the road for me.

Yay

Another silly Kinect dancing game... TS told us that Kinect was revolutionary, all I have seen is the same old dross for 18 months...

Microsoft Bob for the new decade.

I won't be touching anything that's lumbered with the shit MetroUI.

That means no Windows Phone, no XBox360, no Windows 8.

No loss there then....

Perhaps i'm not gettin it.

But what's so bad about simplified and unified privacy policy that applies to ALL Google services.

Surely that's GOOD for consumers? Nothing worse that disparate and complicated policies.

I really wish I didn't have the eurocrat idiots pretending to represent me...

Metro - no thanks.

I won't be putting Metro on anything. It's fucking ugly, it's too simplistic to be useful.

Errm, you don't think this could be related to..

The French government getting all pissy over Google Maps being too good and making French GPS software look totally shit?

http://boingboing.net/2012/02/02/french-court-rules-that-its.html

Problem is

Unlike the HP deals, where you could get a cheap tablet and run Android on it, the playbook is dying on it's arse for two simple reasons.

1/ Buisnesses would never buy them as it's got "play" in it's title.

2/ Consumers would never buy one because it's a dead product with a locked bootloader.

Really, whatever idiot decided to call it the Playbook when their primary market was business, really needs to be flipping burgers right now, as I wouldn't trust him with much else.

They didn't help themselves either, with their mis-selling of their Android "compatibility", which got people's hopes up, only to be destroyed when the reality struck them that it wasn't runtime emulation of Android, it was compile-time...

Prepare

for fanboys to be disappointed when there is only a dual-core CPU, and still a sub 2MP cameras, and a "retina display" that's only really the same as the forthcoming and already announced Asus Transformer refresh,

Expect more lock-in, more DRM and less control.

errm.

Hasn't Opera been promoting this for years????

You write your apps and sites to Web standards, and everything magically works in a browser that conforms to web standards....