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  1. Google is shutting down Stadia Games & Entertainment division

    The Google graveyard awaits.
    8 points
  2. 3) Use your passcode, like everyone's been doing.
    7 points
  3. Ah, your writer missed the chance to use the headline "Apple faces challenges in Epic legal battle".
    5 points
  4. Samsung would like a word with you about overpriced. And a year later they will not want a word with you when they drop you off the priority updates.
    5 points
  5. The best outcome for this would be that Apple is forced to allow side loading and alternative stores. Then iOS is fully perfect for me.
    4 points
  6. I don't understand this. It wasn't as if Google HQ was making the games. They essentially set up a studio as you would describe it to make the games. Now they're shutting it down. Lots of big companies have divisions/subsidiaries that do the actual building. Nintendo and Sony are just as much "corporates" and function not all that differently. I didn't realize they were "bad at making games".
    4 points
  7. that's not a solution.. that's your opinion, which you will find not very popular considering how many people use iPhones.
    4 points
  8. What are you talking about? Appleis headquarered in Cupertino, which is in US last I checked. This explains what I'm talking about: https://nypost.com/2017/11/06/...ration-to-island-of-jersey/
    3 points
  9. Well, that backfired for Apple!
    3 points
  10. I get what Apple is trying to do but I wouldn't give them access to competitors internal documents either. If you want to try and show how your store is no different from others you can do it by all the public policies and rules that are stated in the open for anyone.
    3 points
  11. Google is shutting down Stadia Games & Entertainment division

    It only seemed silly cause 2021 is the real year of the Linux Desktop. This truth was revealed by sky writing on clouds from lasers from outer space here in California. LOL
    3 points
  12. Boy I hear how iPhones are "overpriced junk". Until you're done dealing with copycat rubbish apps flooding GooglePlay, all filled with basically literal spyware, absurd OS fragmentation, terrible long term software support, weeks and months of waiting for updates because you have the wrong device internal version or live in the "wrong" region and while you're waiting, chances are vendor will suddenly announce the exact device you happen to have just got dropped and you're actually not getting anything. I was dealing with this trash since Android Eclair and like 2-3 years I had enough. Yeeeeah, but you can install any launcher and and and you can like install 40000 billion rubbish custom ROM's with zero support and bunch of stuff broken after you stop dicking around with stupid bootloaders and custom kernels for 40 hours... I ditched everything Google anyway at that point, only thing left was Android phone. I was an avid Apple hater and even said I'll never own anything Apple ever back in the day. Then I just dived into it and now I have an iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPods 2. And my god the user experience is just sublime. Sure, it has it's stupidities just like Android, but they are all minor in comparison. People whine over "muh walled garden Apple ecosystem" nonesense and I'm almost laughing coz it's such a massive lie still being propagated to this day. I'm using iPhone. And basically nothing on it is Apple's service. I use everything 3rd party that's neither Google or Apple. One could argue Apple Watch is locked coz you can only use it with iPhone. Fair enough. But experience is amazing because of how tightly it's integrated with iPhone. And AirPods 2, coz I hate silicone in-ears, they were my first go to after I gave up checking 5000 cheap TWS AirPods clones with made up specs and ridiculous version numbers of TWS 80000 because bigger number is better. LOL. AirPods have excellent sound even for gaming and I exclusively use them on Windows systems. Apple stuff is actually pretty amazing once you stop hating it by default and you actually use it for a while. Then you start appreciating updates that you get the same moment they are announced. Something totally unheard on ANY Android device. This is very close to exactly my experience. Android was so terrible it got me to stop hating on Apple. That's... impressive. My iPhone is so, so much better than all of my android phones (all the best you could get for the time). I guess when you buy the product, and aren't the product, things are just better.
    3 points
  13. Ford is partnering with Google in a new multi-year collaboration

    For F's sake. How hard is this? Put a 4k Screen in a car, a basic radio tuner, some speakers and an amp to drive them and let us bring the whatever to it. Nothing worse than automotive UI/UX with software and audio/visual.
    3 points
  14. No one's telling you to do this, just making it easier for those that do. Apple Watch already makes it easier for me to use with Duo 2FA on my work PC, since I never have to take my phone out.
    3 points
  15. Boy I hear how iPhones are "overpriced junk". Until you're done dealing with copycat rubbish apps flooding GooglePlay, all filled with basically literal spyware, absurd OS fragmentation, terrible long term software support, weeks and months of waiting for updates because you have the wrong device internal version or live in the "wrong" region and while you're waiting, chances are vendor will suddenly announce the exact device you happen to have just got dropped and you're actually not getting anything. I was dealing with this trash since Android Eclair and like 2-3 years I had enough. Yeeeeah, but you can install any launcher and and and you can like install 40000 billion rubbish custom ROM's with zero support and bunch of stuff broken after you stop dicking around with stupid bootloaders and custom kernels for 40 hours... I ditched everything Google anyway at that point, only thing left was Android phone. I was an avid Apple hater and even said I'll never own anything Apple ever back in the day. Then I just dived into it and now I have an iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPods 2. And my god the user experience is just sublime. Sure, it has it's stupidities just like Android, but they are all minor in comparison. People whine over "muh walled garden Apple ecosystem" nonesense and I'm almost laughing coz it's such a massive lie still being propagated to this day. I'm using iPhone. And basically nothing on it is Apple's service. I use everything 3rd party that's neither Google or Apple. One could argue Apple Watch is locked coz you can only use it with iPhone. Fair enough. But experience is amazing because of how tightly it's integrated with iPhone. And AirPods 2, coz I hate silicone in-ears, they were my first go to after I gave up checking 5000 cheap TWS AirPods clones with made up specs and ridiculous version numbers of TWS 80000 because bigger number is better. LOL. AirPods have excellent sound even for gaming and I exclusively use them on Windows systems. Apple stuff is actually pretty amazing once you stop hating it by default and you actually use it for a while. Then you start appreciating updates that you get the same moment they are announced. Something totally unheard on ANY Android device.
    3 points
  16. How to set up Unlock with Apple Watch on your iPhone

    Finally the review can be changed to "Do not buy this phone" to "Do not buy this phone if you don't have an Apple Watch"
    3 points
  17. Just looking at the basic '14-core / 20-thread' does make it bizarre since it's outside of what you typically see with CPU's.
    3 points
  18. So Google is so arrogant that they can now bully a country? Get real! Stand your ground Australia!
    3 points
  19. I firmly believe Google is all roar no bite on this issue
    3 points
  20. I actually prefer Bing to Google.
    3 points
  21. SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship updates

    aside from the Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly, seems like the first attempt had a better landing.
    2 points
  22. Good list of stuff coming, personally I have to play through the yakuza games they just added.
    2 points
  23. SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship updates

    We are GO for launch!! Clearing out the villagers at 1100 Eastern
    2 points
  24. Already did that last time, didn't want to overdo it https://www.neowin.net/news/mi...-apple-in-epic-court-battle Good point!
    2 points
  25. Office Lens becomes Microsoft Lens and gets a new icon and features

    Are you ok?
    2 points
  26. Google is shutting down Stadia Games & Entertainment division

    ...for something else entirely https://www.theverge.com/2020/...a-400-games-200-developers" rel="external nofollow">https://www.theverge.com/2020/...ia-400-games-200-developers ..and a dedicated game studio. Oh wait, whoops. Seriously though, the biggest problem with Stadia is the locked purchase model. Developers can release for Stadia, it doesn't even take a special version or port, but don't expect too many exclusives or 'reasons' to pick Stadia. When Microsoft (and other like Amazon, etc) finally pulls the trigger on their cloud services with wider releases and more clients, it will be the make or break it moment for Stadia. If it survives and manages to start gaining support, it might survive. However, the other problem is Google's support, even if Stadia starts to do ok, it may not be enough for Google to keep it alive and instead dump resources into yet another direction.
    2 points
  27. How to set up Unlock with Apple Watch on your iPhone

    You can already use your iPhone to unlock your watch and your watch to unlock your Mac. Now you can use your watch to unlock your iPhone.
    2 points
  28. Google is shutting down Stadia Games & Entertainment division

    just shut down the whole thing
    2 points
  29. How to set up Unlock with Apple Watch on your iPhone

    Well you have touch ID on that, so masks aren't an issue.
    2 points
  30. Because it's likely you already own the watch too?
    2 points
  31. Google is shutting down Stadia Games & Entertainment division

    Pikachu surprise. What Google did it? * Google purchased some small and irrelevant study with only a single game (Typhoon Studios - Journey to the Savage Planet 🤷‍♂️). And the game was not part of the deal. * Hired some white-collars with experience in the business. Some companies don't get that to create a videogame is not about who is the boss but about who is the team. Then, apparently in 2 years and over +100 employees (and 2 studios), they finished a couple of demos.
    2 points
  32. LOL yea, let me spend $350 to unlock my phone while wearing a mask.
    2 points
  33. You don't like something, so brand it the "enemy". How very Trump-ish of you. Our side is not the one that bans everyone they disagree with. your "side" doesn't get a say anymore after trying insurrection. period. done. Because you can not accept the concept of side condemning their own. The attack on the Capitol building was a really, really stupid idea, but it was far from insurrection. Whatever makes you sleep at night buddy. It was insurrection, sedition and borderline treason. insurrection: a violent uprising against an authority or government. sedition: conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch. treason: the crime of betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government. Just because they failed (miserably at that) doesn't mean they get a pass.
    2 points
  34. I hate ads in the first place, so why would I want to see them personalized?
    2 points
  35. twitter should be banned in all countries.
    2 points
  36. Twitter is pathetic and I cannot wait for their ultimate and inevitable demise. They are the enemy in every facet of the word.
    2 points
  37. As an Aussie I can say I prefer Bing to Google. Better, less filtered and censored and sponsored results.
    2 points
  38. Aussie here. I use Bing as my default and have been for years, rarely I’ll try another search engine. I really doubt Google will exit. They are not stupid. Most likely trying to show the muscle.
    2 points
  39. Up until a year ago I would have agreed with you. Bing used to be so US centric, however they have come leaps and bounds this past year and are actually quite good now (at least in Aus). So much so that I made the switch to Bing after switching to Edge and getting sick of the "HEEEEY PLZ USE CHROME MAATE" every time you loaded a google page. If google try to cut off email and calendar, then I'm screwed, but otherwise quite happy with MS offering now days!
    2 points
  40. DDG is operated by the CIA, HQ in the US, they refused independent source code audit, and their android app was leaking your data https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android/issues/527" rel="external nofollow">https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android/issues/527 DuckduckGo should be banned outside of the US There are better non US alternatives for the rest of the world, stop telling people to use your your state funded US companies as alternative to US companies, IT'S THE SAME WTF? Any source there buddy?
    2 points
  41. Yep. I got my dad to switch over years ago, and he really can't tell the difference. He likes seeing the Bing pic of the day as well. Did the same for my mother, and my kids are now all on it too. Only tech people care about how the sausage is made. Ordinary folk (non-techies) don't care.
    2 points
  42. Aussie here. I use Bing as my default and the few times it can’t find what I need, I’ll try another search engine. Not always Google
    2 points
  43. I actually prefer Bing to Google. Agreed, the Microsoft Rewards are a nice touch too.
    2 points
  44. Yes, but this is Intel. If they could compete with the Apple's M1 processor, why did they wait? Why did they keep with the i5, i7 and now I9 BS? If this works, I'm glad Apple forced their hand. Intel, nor AMD would not have stopped otherwise. If they didnt have all the problems with their 10nm node I'd bet this tech would've been out 1 or 2 years ago. Don't forget that they've been forced to push their 10nm plans back, so who knows what the original time line would've been if they didn't mess up?
    1 point
  45. "you need to be wearing an unlocked Apple Watch" That's not the catch, why would you NOT unlock your Watch while wearing it? The _actual_ catch is that this only works with phone unlock but not for authorizing payments. But then again, if you're already wearing the Watch, you can pay with that already, so no biggie.
    1 point
  46. No. It's an extra feature for those who already bought the apple watch. Nice try...
    1 point
  47. Apple's Chrome extension for iCloud passwords is now live

    Are you using the version that's on the Windows store? Stand alone version, but it is exactly the same, just not in locked down hidden directories This is the one exception where I would recommend the Store version. iTunes leaves so much crap in Windows when you want to get rid of it.
    1 point
  48. So it comes for only 350$ extra
    1 point
  49. Specifically, Google no longer show proper URLs, but breadcrumbs. And the URL is not highlighted in a different color, the URL and title lines have swapped their position. News results on Desktop now have an extremely awful space wasting boxy design that shows very few news results and you have to scroll-scroll-scroll and that same nonsense - everything is black including titles and links - no color differentiation between visited and unvisited links either. Image search UI is also completely ruined as the image preview is tiny and uses about 1/4th of the screen.
    1 point