Wait, wait, wait... YOU responded to my already valid and reasonable statement with snark that implied the only remaining option was them going out of business, but I’M now being called the snarky ass for responding in kind? If you had actually cared remotely about a “valid counterargument” instead of a snark battle,…

I remember literally falling asleep during this film. And after being shocked by how well (for the most part) his recut of Justice League mostly repaired the damage, I’d be open to seeing what could be done here. It can’t get much worse.

Yes, those are obviously the two only options. Go out of business OR treat your customers well. There is no in between.

...what? The trope about losing remotes in couches predates Apple TV remotes by DECADES, well into the days when remotes were bricks by comparison. How incredibly out of touch.

Exactly. It’s implausible that it’s necessary. I imagine it does help simplify things for them in not needing to support individual computers and OS updates and such, so maybe it reduces their costs, but if so, that’s the point, in that it reduced their costs. If they chose that route, so be it. The old system, which…

I can *almost* defend that subscription simply because they have servers to maintain to let that function, but I still do agree it’s an obnoxious business model. There’s got to be a better way.

Also an IT guy, and the HP Smart thing has been frustrating. I was really impressed with how dead simple it made setup for the users, without needing to install their larger suite, but now scanning requires an account which is not something I want to thrust upon my users.

Yes. Yes it is absolutely unreasonable to force me to continue paying a company for HARDWARE I own because they have arbitrarily tied their business model to needing me to subscribe and not because their product actually requires it. Stop excusing this behavior.

Yes and no. I’m very aware that it’s available for Android. That doesn’t mean it’s integrated into Gboard or the system web browser, though. All the smart password functions of Android rely on integration with your Google account.

There’s absolutely no reason it needs to be that, though. That’s 100% your own imagination of what it would need to be, but the beauty of it being written by professionals with creative ideas is they can think outside that limited box. Will they? No way of knowing. It absolutely could fail at being original and…

Same here. It doesn’t give you the opportunity to rename yourself, that I’ve seen anyway, until AFTER you’re connected. I go by a nickname with my friends and use that on personal calls, and ended up with that nickname on a business call recently and was confused when the vendor called me by that name. It was nothing…

Also, when you swipe down, you get more shortcuts for accessing things like airplane and theater mode.

I use it exclusively for my work stuff now, and I’d honestly switch for personal use too if I wasn’t:

Absolutely definitely a feature of Edge.

Don’t be silly. He’s not afraid of his viewers seeing him vaping, but his big tobacco sponsors.

But for me, coming from an Xbox One, and considering my next console, factors like this do matter. I was very seriously considering going PS5 when they’re available and I’m ready, and the more I read about concepts like this and other similar differences, the more it makes me think I might stick with Xbox in the next…

This is the case with SO much technology. It’s usually the things that work the best that you don’t notice. It’s only what’s broken that stands out. So people take for granted a system like this that works so hard to stay completely out of your way.

I mean, it sounds like they’ve still screwed the current owners, because with this being fully cloud-managed, and the fact that with these new policies very few people will be dumb enough to buy one now, their revenue stream will dry up and everyone will be out a device.

Not really, unless by that stretch we’re paying for UPS delivery trucks, or Amazon delivery trucks, because we’re paying the company that owns them. But these aren’t coming out of our tax dollars, which is what that comment usually implies.

We’re the ones who have to see them all day long.