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This was probably a tactic by Marissa to push Microsoft to modify the terms of the contract to be more favorable. Remember she was not the one who signed it.

I don't think it costs much extra. I have seen a decent touch screen laptop at around $500. Many lower than that. Find some here. http://www.edealpc.com/ Filter by touch screen.

There is nothing that singles Microsoft out here as every other operator of email and other software complied as well. This is something the US government should come clean on and something that the tech companies should push the government to do.

Unfortunately this page will probably not even hit the most gullible folks who signed in their gmail and are using Google+ unknowingly. Hope there is a broader communication from Google to allow people to disable this. Can't imagine this was made an automatic opt in.

Key quote:

"We have analyzed all Android apps with over one million downloads on Google Play, and we found that over 1.8% of these apps used Vulna. These affected apps have been downloaded more than 200 million times in total."

Either the Fox staff does not know how to use these or they were captured using it not exactly the way it was intended. From what I know these are not supposed to be used as tablets like the guys in the article are doing. These are huddle around whiteboards. Something you can use in a meeting room. Their use in media is interesting and the use of these in a broadcast is just a minor use case for these amazing devices.

Blog spam: already discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6495835

This would be great for me as a user. I am not a big fan of the android UX but they got the apps I want. So I can use Windows phone for day to day use and only when I want the app that windows doesn't have I can go to android. Of course having to boot would suck but maybe that can be made faster.

Good that Nexus is stepping up its game. After Nokia hit it out of the park with its Lumia 1020 camera, using any other smartphone camera was sub par. Glad that we will have some competition. Of course its not just about focusing speed. Hope the sensor can produce some good images

scanning for spam does not have to extract the context. Scanning for serving ads probably does?

Try out OneNote. Great keyboard shortcuts and way more functional.

Have you tried OneNote. It kicks ass in doing bullet lists and todos. easy reordering, checkboxes and flags, pretty cool.

I doubt it would matter much to Microsoft if he leaves. It's not that he had a say in the day to day operations and even when it comes to long term strategy I think Steve needed him because Steve himself was not a technologist. If another CEO like Mulally takes over then he would benefit from a Bill's inputs but if they get a tech savvy CEO which I think they should then Bill would be more of a hindrance than help.

The arguments made in the article seem logical too. He's an icon and it'd be sad to see him step down but nothing that's impact the company.

It's coming early next year. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1mz20e/hi_im_panos_pan...

the touch cover is not that great but the type cover is awesome for typing. Looks like the second version of it is backlit as well so it does make for a great dev PC

Actually if you are thinking of connecting your PC to your TV then Windows 7 is still the best bet. It's a well kept secret but a quiet PC connected to TV beats any other media solution out there hands down.

These are great. Not just the content but love how they are presented. I wish all the lectures in colleges were as rich an immersive as these.

Microsoft does have a big PR problem. The brand has lost its association with innovation, coolness, etc. That does not mean though the company itself is lacking in those attributes. From that perspective yes they do need a Mayer. Although it will be interesting to see if it results into empty hopes like what has resulted in Mayer's tenure so far.

That's the brand association though. Surface by itself is a well engineered product.

But but iPhone is not he only device I access many sites from. What if I need to sign into the website from my PC and need to use firefox or IE for that?

Google does the same and their phones seems to be selling quite well.

and this is a top news on HN because?

A couple of weeks ago when Snowden had a similar leak about Microsoft's compliance with NSA the everybody was up in arms against them. Naively forgetting that Google is the one that collects way more information and has way more context about most people and is very likely sharing that information with NSA as well. Now here you go!

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Koush here.

I've been suspicious of the Chromecast developer policies since release. From my personal interactions with their developer relations, they've been quite tight lipped about who would be receiving approval for a release to a broader audience:

"Unfortunately, at the moment our standard answer is: Thank you so much for reaching out about developing for Chromecast. It’s still early days, so we are just previewing the Google Cast SDK and hope to be sharing it in its entirety with developers soon. We look forward to seeing to releasing the public SDK later on so that mobile and web developers can start to create compelling, multi-screen experiences. We're not currently working with additional partners until we release a public SDK. We are trying to find a better answer, but we have nothing yet to announce."

Google TV (yes, Chromecast is from the GoogleTV team) has a storied history of releasing closed off products, only allowing access to select partners and media companies. I was fairly certain that Chromecast would be no different. My suspicions were confirmed today. Here's what's happened since release, for context:

Chromecast ships with whitelisting. Why go through the trouble of having a whitelist to do development? It took extra development effort to lock the platform down, and build out the whitelisting infrastructure. A walled garden was planned since inception. They intend to use that wall.

Chromecast shipped with no default media player app, or any way to play your own content. As I demonstrated, this is actually very easy to implement. The fact that it did not ship with this by default was likely calculated. They don't want you playing your own content.

Chromecast had a "GoogleCastSample" app that could be leveraged as a default media player. Many developers started using this. One week after release, GoogleCastSample was disabled.

Chromecast's tab casting also supported local content. I, and a few other developers, managed to reverse engineer the Chromecast tab protocol to piggy back this to deliver local content. This was not simply "broken" with an update. It was intentionally disabled. See code explanation here, if you want: https://plus.google.com/110558071969009568835/posts/HbrpBbVG...

What this all points to: The Chromecast is just a Google TV in a smaller form factor. Yet another box from your TV that delivers the same old tired array of big media apps that you can find on any other cable/tv box. I already have 5 of such boxes (2 Xbox, 2 Apple TV, 1 Roku).

I don't need another box to do this. I want a mainstream, open platform, that I can connect to my TV. That would be new. That would be different.

The motivations behind this behavior are obvious. Google needs to do this to placate media companies, who will perpetually push stringent requirements before granting access to their coveted content. This will not change until content delivery companies (Netflix, Amazon, and Google) start creating their own content. And in fact, this is starting to happen already.

Yes I was calling ?Google a one trick pony which they are. Have you looked at where they make their profits from?

Actually I wonder why doesn't Microsoft do it for every one? No tracking, no ads just plain old good results. Google has been attacking Microsoft with its scorched earth strategy in many areas (google docs, chrome OS, etc.) And given that google is just a one trick pony, this might affect them more.

Calm down. So you think a youtube app with a big rectangle that plays video and another one that allows you to type the url is the right experience? Video playback is just one aspect of it. search, lists, subscriptions, commenting, uploading, tagging, etc.

As for facebook's app, I was commenting about HTML5 still not being the best option for mobile app development.

>The Youtube app for iOS is developed by Google

Except that the original iOS app was developed by Apple and Google had no issues with that

The experience you can provide with an HTML5 app are many times subpar as compared to a native app. Note how facebook abandoned their HTML5 app and went native.

Of course it doesn't matter much with the nokia mapping apps on the nokia phones being a better alternative.