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Collin Jasnoch wrote: g+ is more about expanding your network. There is no approval of whether I "Add
you". You can turn around and "Block" me, but that is different.
That's exactly the part of G+ I like the least  (and when FB does something similar, like groups for example, I HATE it).
Collin Jasnoch wrote: Use the browser like everyone else till we change our mind.
This is not an argument. Google HAS officially supported apps for Android AND iPhone, which certainly provide better functionality than the web-based client. And with the 90% market share they have on search in EU, they need to follow stricter rules than the competition (the same way Microsoft has to offer browser choice prompts on Windows, while Apple doesn't need to).
Regarding Windows 8, it's a transitional system, a necessity. We wouldn't be able to move from the old world to the metro world in one day. For the moment I am happy about gradually switching to Metro as better apps are getting out, without having to do a jump like the WP7 jump which had on release less functionality than the competition, and needed two years (and WP8 ) to catch up functionality-wise.
modified 6-Apr-21 21:01pm.
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Collin Jasnoch wrote: If you post something and it is not intended for a broader audience then you can
limit it (only post to specific circles/people). Facebook did not allow this.
Essentially what ever you post is public domain and searchable.
This means
other apps can "track" you. Very dangerous IMO.
Thanks for having clarified that. Ok, in this way it's better. The fact that it indexes my emails still gives me the creeps, but facebook is also horrible in this regard (to be honest, if I could, I would leave facebook, but I have a lot of very interesting people there. As I change countries and meet people of many different places, and every country has its own social networks, only facebook seems to work for almost everyone at this moment).
In the same way you put the effort to move to g+, I am thinking of putting the effort of moving everything on windows live now that they remake their site(![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) new outlook mail[^]). I started doing this gradually (actually with the connectors, if someone is following me on windows live they see the same info I post to fb). I really hope facebook at some point will get on the nerves of a lot of people the way mySpace did, and we move to some place with more respect for our privacy.
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I didn't. But if we are not just talking about devices, I would have loved to vote for their Doodles.
..Go Green..
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true
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In this line of business, good looking means nothing to me.
No one will ever see me buy some electronic device or a piece of software because it's beautiful.
Same thing applies to the "because everybody have one".
If I don't need it, I won't buy it.
If there's a uglier machine but more powerful, I won't choose another just because it's prettier.
Technology by itself evolves in astonishing speeds only being surpassed by the visual trends, this means that whatever you buy will most probably look obsolete before it behaves obsolete.
Aim for what matters! 
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AlexCode wrote: If I don't need it, I won't buy it.
AlexCode wrote: Aim for what matters!
Bingo.
AlexCode wrote: No one will ever see me buy some electronic device or a piece of software because it's beautiful.
Same thing applies to the "because everybody have one".
I have a small TV window running in one corner. There just was a commercial break with no less than four ads for some kind of device in about five minutes. People have been brainwashed well.
At least artificial intelligence already is superior to natural stupidity
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Good look means a lot to me (thus i buy Samsung)
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First, Design is not just looks, it includes usability among other things.
Second, when difference between products functions is small, looks matter.
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True, but usually people don't think about things like ergonomics as "design".
But I totally agree with you.
The second part, although also true, rarely happens.
On a product, you invest money either on the juice or on the package, rarely on both.
Still, there are a few exceptions.
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Their website is a cluttered mess, the only design there is "find a place to shove this in the page". (I assume the poll is about website design, not hardware/other software from the description, but it honestly isn't all that clear.)
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I assume not, from the "Microsoft's new Metro design?" bit.
Amazon have the Kindle, and the Fire. The Kindle certainly started something, and the later ones are nice kit (if you get get over the "black flash" when you change pages.)
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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But the "Google's creative logos" sounds like a direct reference to their website. Also, the Fire runs Android right? So they really can't get all the credit for that.
Honestly the question is just kind of confusing. They don't all exist in the same field for proper comparison (Intel makes processors, who cares what they look like? And if Intel qualifies, why not AMD?). The only thing they all have in common is that they all have websites, but then again what large company doesn't these days?
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With the orange and green alien 
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Agree =)
Christian Amado
MCITP | MCTS | MOS | MTA
Olimpia ☆ ★★★
Please mark as answer, if it helps.
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I will second that - apparently as good programmers lack of sense to aesthetic shows how hardcore we are
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not enough. we need more iframes.
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I don't think anyone cares to know why, but I did not reject this poll, and did in fact vote for one of the choices.
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We all care!
Now, do you want to talk about why you feel that way?
Please, have a seat on my coach, Herr Chris...That's it, just lie back and relax...
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Other's, below, have expressed similar rebellion against being forced to either give their approval to an item the may least disapprove of, or as I did, pick none at all and thus not truly participate in the pole.
These are the kinds of survey wordings/choices that allow bragging rights of 'voted best' to some really elephanted up things in this world.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"It is the celestial scrotum of good luck!" - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"But you probably have the smoothest scrotum of any grown man" - Pete O'Hanlon (2012)
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I thought of apple as there products are very good for being easy to use out of the box.
If you have friends with other "apples" you can swap data as much as you like. But then there's Itunes, so I went for Google instead.
Why is it when you are busy everyone whats it yesterday, But when your not no-one has any work for you?
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As they had the lowest votes and I neither know, nor care.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Shed Petition[ ^]
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Same here
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