Apple has done this many times before. Over even more frivolous patents (i.e. a glossy black rectangle)

They made their bed, now they have to lie in it

IFunny is unironically better

go to read article about fixing annoying internet shit

some big stupid pop up interrupts my reading internet shit, pestering me for my email address

Seriously. I had a friend extolling how good his experience with his chiropractor was, in response to my tale about physical therapy after a skiing accident. I ended the argument pretty quickly by asking “how often do you have to go back”

The author can’t type very quickly

Or lawnmower man

They should stick them on swappa. Kindles hold value fairly well, and they’re great gifts to kids, as they can often encourage reading

Pixel

After getting burnt by both the Google endorsed Xoom and the Google branded Nexus 10, I don’t trust them at all when it comes to tablets.

With both, Google released good products, and then proceeded to ruin them with abhorrent changes to the software. They made the Nexus 10 dump it’s tablet interface in favor of a big phone UI ffs.

The site hosted by y-combinator defends the former president of y-combinator. Weird

The gun would be a faster way to go

Great, it will now have a fraction of the features AnyList had, before Google killed the integration for no good reason

Or use Orion, which is Safari but better

Is this the same CEO who fired the entire documentation team and then gave herself a raise?

Best? Kagi. Best free? Probably bing or searx

Paywalled article 🙃

Kagi summary:

• The Android Market (now Google Play Store) was launched in October 2008 with the T-Mobile G1 phone, helping establish app ecosystems on mobile.

• Before app stores, finding and downloading apps was difficult through various online stores and carrier stores with limited selection and updates.

• The Android Market centralized the app experience and discovery, giving access to a growing variety and number of apps in one place.

• Early app successes helped drive more users, phones, developers and apps in a reinforcing cycle that grew the app economy exponentially.

• Popular early apps filled gaps in Android’s capabilities in areas like weather, file management, flashlights as built-in features were still being developed.

• Later apps brought extra abilities beyond necessities, like music streaming, ebooks, games, social media and more.

• The article reminisces on the novelty of app stores and ecosystems in their early days compared to their ubiquitous presence today.

• Over 100,000 apps were available by mid-2010 and over 3.5 million apps today on Google Play.

• We now take app discovery, updates, and the overall app experience for granted due to how well app stores do their job.

• The article credits the Android Market and Apple App Store for establishing apps as the norm and changing our expectations of mobile.

I have 10 gig at home, and powerful enough networking hardware that can take advantage of it (Ubiquiti stuff)

Nothing can ever saturate the line. So it’s great for aggregate, but that’s it

Honestly, for games, it’s got even more potential. Imagine if the NPCs in games actually said your characters name, not just “dragonborn” or whatever

Imo the smart thing for VAs to do would be get in front of it. License their voices to models, and charge royalties for said models

No. They used to be extremely good

So just set Calibre to convert the books to mobi before sending it to them