Reminds me of when Android was still trying to get it together— say, in Froyo and Gingerbread (really pre-Holo entirely), when all the UI elements were disjointed? In an effort to become modern, Apple has fragmented iOS in the same way. I'm sure they'll eventually get it together, but in its current form iOS7 looks…

Not bad.

I feel the same way, but about the label button in portrait on phones. I wish I could replace the move to folder button with label. Le sigh.

No, it doesn't feature dictionary syncing support, OR export. That's one of the unicorn features Nexus owners have been waiting on FOREVER.

I didn't think that the backwards compatibility issue would be a big one, but it's proving to actually be a bigger issue than the whole online/used things, just because of XBLA. I didn't realise it but I have a LOT of arcade/indie titles and that's a lot of sunk costs I'm out of (because I don't want to keep my 360…

Then you are luckier than the rest of us. And I'm happy for your good fortune. It happens!

I suppose I can understand the line between wanting to be online and being made to be, but for me it's never been an issue. We're all different, I guess.

These answers are, by and large, amusingly idiotic. For a thread designed (I assume) to actually provide a little elucidation in case the folks in Redmond are listening, a whole mess of you decided to use the opportunity to shit the bed.

The aspects of the system that seem to be bothering most folks don't much bother me at all. Online checks? Steam's had them for years, and the sun still comes up. The used thing? Well, games are expensive enough now, but doing a little work on CAG always seems to yield new titles for around $35 or $40 pretty close to…

I wasn't referring to the online requirement. I was referring to Sony's very noncommittal response about having a similar system in place regarding playing used games. They have stopped well short of saying the PS4 will simply play used games the same way the PS3 does, and when pressed on the issue Sony's PR have…

I'm uncertain I get how it's nonsense. Obviously you're not entirely against the idea of "offline mode" and online checks, because Steam— which you admit to using— uses the same.

Sony hasn't exactly confirmed they aren't doing this, friend. They have, so far, danced around the issue in ways that specifically allow them space to spring this exact thing on people. I really, really doubt Microsoft did this for publishers out of the goodness of their hearts. Things like this happen, generally, as…

• Survey Question One: If the Xbox One must use the Internet but can run online, then I will accept an offline gaming mode that lasts as little as ________ hours/days/weeks/months. (Put N/A if you are sure you would simply never accept such a mode.) I've thought about it, and I'll buy the system anyway (just as I bought…

I don't really care so much about GameStop because, really, fuck them, but this puts a massive hurt on Redbox and GameFly. And that's too bad.

MicroCenter has a very, very weird price matching policy. They'll price match a reasonable number of online retailers— and do so in some instances preemptively (frequently against NewEgg)— but getting approval to do it is an extreme hassle. But they will not, ever, go below their "employee purchase price" on an item,…

Buy them an OLPC. Trolololol.

Plus, since Google announced they'd be selling an unlocked S4 running stock Android, it may be a great bet if you can't get your hands on a Nexus 4 (or your carrier is incompatible with it).

Almost every single nomination of the Galaxy Nexus in the original post was for the Verizon version... that much should've been obvious to you. Lifehacker is a primarily American website, and Verizon is the largest American carrier by subscription numbers, and the Galaxy Nexus is the only Nexus device available for…

I get that the divide between responsibility to the bottom and one's personal convictions is a wide one... it's just interesting how much Riccitiello seems like a guy we would—any of us— like to be gamer-friends with, and how little that was reflected in much of EA's business over the last few years.

It's funny— when people like this are outside the jobs we know them for performing (Peter Moore was a good example of this for a while, as well), they seem like such obviously right-headed people that we can't help but wonder why they didn't succeed. I can't find one thing in this article to disagree with, really— but…