yes they are cool, but i don't see the usability factor other than it being a smartphone i wear. How will they change my life making them a killer device to buy?
my smartphone makes calls. plays games. plays music and movies. records life events. i use it as my GPS device.etc etc etc.
how will these do it better? from the video it seems their biggest draw is to make you buy stuff right away. i bet the marketers will love them and normal people will hate them
yes, i have nothing better to do than hook up a computer to the TV and let my wife suffer even more with an overkill tool for the job. and why would i want to buy a separate computer to hook up to the TV? why would i move my laptop all the time?
blu ray players, apple tv/roku and game consoles are much better suited for this because for most people their life does not revolve around the computer
i know the kiddies who work at google love the geeky spend life around your computer/smart phone crowd but for most of us we watch this stuff on this huge screen called a TV with other people of blood relation to us.
amazon just released instant video on the PS3 and the x-box will probably be here by the end of the year. why should i even think about google for this?
i bought some of those classic games for my iphone and ipad and never play them. they suck. i even had Command and Conquer decades a few years back and the early C&C games suck compared to the later ones. the control sucks, the graphics suck.
the era of the walk/run kill a few enemies, scour for crap and repeat is over. the market is now after casual kiddie games. angry birds made more money than most "hardcore" violent games. i love Mass Effect and other games like this, but this is the new era of gaming.
farmville/cityville were just sim city clones with a social aspect and publishers have noticed. if you don't like any kinect games its because you aren't the target market for them. the market just became a lot bigger and the run/kill games are now a tiny part of it. anyone who won't get it will be run out of business.
my wife games more than i do, but she never touches the PS3 or the xbox and never shoots anything or anyone
for years gamers have screamed for innovation and new genres. now you got it, finally
i've used it on iOS a little. i know it does filters, but what is the purpose behind the following and sharing?
it seems that most of these social apps are so you can directly follow your fave celebrities on twitter and say how cool they are when they post a pic. instead of waiting for the monthly magazine with the stalkerazzi photos
we use HP servers and HP ships a suite of software to install on the server along with the OS. they monitor the hardware and warn you of any problems. unless you like doing things the hard way, this was solved years and years ago
i have a bad hard drive i call HP, send them a log file and in 2 hours i have a new one delivered
maybe if they didn't eat crap they wouldn't get sick
i think it was on Food inc. they had a family who always ate fast food. dad had diabetes and cost $100 a month in drugs. they continue to eat fast food because peaches cost $2 or $3 a pound and they couldn't find anything else in the store other than peaches or broccoli. idiots
this was raw pork covered with what looked like saran wrap and tied with kitchen string outside the plastic and the instructions were to cook it in the oven with the plastic on
how many old people eat crappy salt/sugar/carb laden food just because their parents made it for them as kids.
and my favorite. yesterday my mother in law brought some pork over. it was marinated and wrapped in plastic. the butcher told to cook it in the plastic and i had an argument with her how its bad for you. she does it all the time at home
banks and others run anti-fraud software. one time i used one of my rarely used cards to open a microsoft support case. it was declined. a card with $0 balance. and my bank called me. i called them back later and they wanted to make sure it was me
except that development budgets have been OK, MARKETING BUDGETS have sky rocketed
every time activision releases their annual military shooter the marketing budget is hundreds of millions of $$$ even though the engine is like 7 years old
EA/Bioware spent money on sending copies of ME3 into space to float back down along with CGI trailers that never made it back into the game
in some cases the marketing budgets are more than the dev budgets
i bet best buy would devote less floor space at the minimum as well. they sell used games and no physical disks means less potential customers in the door
what exactly is going to be so cool about this console except better graphics?
$60 games with no resale means i buy one or two awesome games per year
i mostly game on my x-box and use the PS3 for movies and netflix. the xbox has enough $20 GOTY editions of good games that i have years left to play them and no need to buy any of the new systems for a long time.
my dream system for next gen is x-box with blu ray and backwards compatibility. i'll buy it even if the new next gen games are locked down since i'll play the old and use it as a blu ray player after dumping my current x-box and PS3
RIM was only ever good for the enterprise market to give employees email on the go. first it was the execs and then the worker bees so they couldn't give the excuse that they couldn't work on the weekend because they didn't see the email.
the original iphone was overpriced but it looked cool. original androids were crappola. RIM had years to release a new product but they stuck to their BES/BIS investment. can't blame them. after spending billions of $$$ on a cloud computing solution before cloud was everywhere how do you go to the board of directors and tell them to dump it all and start from scratch?
i sit near our sales people and a little while ago one of them made a joke about how a prospective customer is one of the 5 people in NYC who still uses a blackberry
no, it was ray ozzie or some other guy. can't remember the name. MS hired him and he gave them a business reason to use and support open source standards compliant software.
nope, there have been articles written about the company and how the media guys are always crippling cool hardware that sony tries to make. they run to the board and scream piracy and sony ends up releasing crappy hardware.
back in the 1980's when they had too much money it seemed like a good idea to control the content as well, but in the age of apple you release good hardware or die off
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i prefer the amazon pricing app, and no i don't search half the things i see on a daily basis
yes they are cool, but i don't see the usability factor other than it being a smartphone i wear. How will they change my life making them a killer device to buy?
my smartphone makes calls. plays games. plays music and movies. records life events. i use it as my GPS device.etc etc etc.
how will these do it better? from the video it seems their biggest draw is to make you buy stuff right away. i bet the marketers will love them and normal people will hate them
yes, i have nothing better to do than hook up a computer to the TV and let my wife suffer even more with an overkill tool for the job. and why would i want to buy a separate computer to hook up to the TV? why would i move my laptop all the time?
blu ray players, apple tv/roku and game consoles are much better suited for this because for most people their life does not revolve around the computer
i know the kiddies who work at google love the geeky spend life around your computer/smart phone crowd but for most of us we watch this stuff on this huge screen called a TV with other people of blood relation to us.
amazon just released instant video on the PS3 and the x-box will probably be here by the end of the year. why should i even think about google for this?
WTF?
i bought some of those classic games for my iphone and ipad and never play them. they suck. i even had Command and Conquer decades a few years back and the early C&C games suck compared to the later ones. the control sucks, the graphics suck.
i played black ops after it came out. play it once and its useless to replay. same with gears of war.
Mass effect and other RPG/shooter combos can be replayed a lot of times with different strategies each time
if you want people to buy your games new and not sell them, make games with replay value
the era of the walk/run kill a few enemies, scour for crap and repeat is over. the market is now after casual kiddie games. angry birds made more money than most "hardcore" violent games. i love Mass Effect and other games like this, but this is the new era of gaming.
farmville/cityville were just sim city clones with a social aspect and publishers have noticed. if you don't like any kinect games its because you aren't the target market for them. the market just became a lot bigger and the run/kill games are now a tiny part of it. anyone who won't get it will be run out of business.
my wife games more than i do, but she never touches the PS3 or the xbox and never shoots anything or anyone
for years gamers have screamed for innovation and new genres. now you got it, finally
you insensitive clod
have you ever thought that his cats might want some privacy?
i've used it on iOS a little. i know it does filters, but what is the purpose behind the following and sharing?
it seems that most of these social apps are so you can directly follow your fave celebrities on twitter and say how cool they are when they post a pic. instead of waiting for the monthly magazine with the stalkerazzi photos
we use HP servers and HP ships a suite of software to install on the server along with the OS. they monitor the hardware and warn you of any problems. unless you like doing things the hard way, this was solved years and years ago
i have a bad hard drive i call HP, send them a log file and in 2 hours i have a new one delivered
maybe if they didn't eat crap they wouldn't get sick
i think it was on Food inc. they had a family who always ate fast food. dad had diabetes and cost $100 a month in drugs. they continue to eat fast food because peaches cost $2 or $3 a pound and they couldn't find anything else in the store other than peaches or broccoli. idiots
this was raw pork covered with what looked like saran wrap and tied with kitchen string outside the plastic and the instructions were to cook it in the oven with the plastic on
how many old people eat crappy salt/sugar/carb laden food just because their parents made it for them as kids.
and my favorite. yesterday my mother in law brought some pork over. it was marinated and wrapped in plastic. the butcher told to cook it in the plastic and i had an argument with her how its bad for you. she does it all the time at home
banks and others run anti-fraud software. one time i used one of my rarely used cards to open a microsoft support case. it was declined. a card with $0 balance. and my bank called me. i called them back later and they wanted to make sure it was me
except that development budgets have been OK, MARKETING BUDGETS have sky rocketed
every time activision releases their annual military shooter the marketing budget is hundreds of millions of $$$ even though the engine is like 7 years old
EA/Bioware spent money on sending copies of ME3 into space to float back down along with CGI trailers that never made it back into the game
in some cases the marketing budgets are more than the dev budgets
x-box live has a family gold account for $90 a year
ironically lately there are lots of discounted Live Gold cards being sold now, but no discounted family gold cards
i bet best buy would devote less floor space at the minimum as well. they sell used games and no physical disks means less potential customers in the door
what exactly is going to be so cool about this console except better graphics?
$60 games with no resale means i buy one or two awesome games per year
i mostly game on my x-box and use the PS3 for movies and netflix. the xbox has enough $20 GOTY editions of good games that i have years left to play them and no need to buy any of the new systems for a long time.
my dream system for next gen is x-box with blu ray and backwards compatibility. i'll buy it even if the new next gen games are locked down since i'll play the old and use it as a blu ray player after dumping my current x-box and PS3
you're finally getting a well deserved vacation for all the hard work you put in the last 15 years
RIM was only ever good for the enterprise market to give employees email on the go. first it was the execs and then the worker bees so they couldn't give the excuse that they couldn't work on the weekend because they didn't see the email.
the original iphone was overpriced but it looked cool. original androids were crappola. RIM had years to release a new product but they stuck to their BES/BIS investment. can't blame them. after spending billions of $$$ on a cloud computing solution before cloud was everywhere how do you go to the board of directors and tell them to dump it all and start from scratch?
just wait a few more years
i sit near our sales people and a little while ago one of them made a joke about how a prospective customer is one of the 5 people in NYC who still uses a blackberry
logically the US should just kill everyone on earth who is not an american. this way all the resources will belong to us
but we don't because it has been established long ago that a smaller piece of a larger pie is much better than eating all of a tiny pie
and since it was a mathmatecian who discovered this, i bet advanced life will figure this out as well
no, it was ray ozzie or some other guy. can't remember the name. MS hired him and he gave them a business reason to use and support open source standards compliant software.
nope, there have been articles written about the company and how the media guys are always crippling cool hardware that sony tries to make. they run to the board and scream piracy and sony ends up releasing crappy hardware.
back in the 1980's when they had too much money it seemed like a good idea to control the content as well, but in the age of apple you release good hardware or die off
i just looked and saw one fly past the empire state building