All the radar did in the Pixel was enable you to hands-free shuffle through music and quickly unlock the device. It wasn’t game-changing in the least.

How is it different than downloading an installer on PC instead of going through the (barf) Microsoft Store? Yeah, there's risks, but that's people's responsibility to know. If we keep handholding and restricting people on their technology nobody will know how to truly use it. 

Hello, Tim Cook. I didn’t know you still commented on gizmodo.

improve the goddamn original app instead!

They had this with Hangouts, and then, idiotically, removed it.  Hangouts had everything.  SMS/MMS, group video chat, screen sharing, faux voip, Google Voice support...was actually a one stop shop until Google decided to fragment themselves and release Duo and Allo which had redundant features relative to Hangouts. …

Agreed 100%. Hangouts already had most of the key functionality of Allo AND Duo before Google inexplicably created two new products with nonsensical names instead of improving the one that already had wide adoption.

In a world where Allo didn’t get kicked to the curb, neglected, and then left for dead, Allo should have been the successor to Hangouts.

“since a Chromecast would let your phone do the heavy-lifting and just cast your videos to a bigger screen”

I’m not sure if you understand the point of Chromecast. The lack of on screen “apps” is exactly the point, and the advantage, of the system. The UX of a “Smart” TV or set-top streaming box is terrible. Even something powerful and snappy like an Xbox or Playstation isn’t a good experience for streaming.

You still have to pull up content on a computer or a phone and cast it to your TV. You still can’t turn the thing on and access apps directly on your TV.

My biggest complaint is Amazon’s refusal to actually, you know, “work” with Chromecast. I don’t buy anything that is Amazon-specific, and cringe every time I want to watch anything on their service like the new season of The Man in the High Castle. They have been actively blocking Chromecast API since it came out, and…

Lies. 20 pages per $40 cartridge, cartridges saying they’re low the same week they’re bought, errors in their proprietary “name-brand-cartridge” detecting technology that wastes even more money, not letting you print in black & white if color ink is low or absent, requiring alignment pages before literally every…

I really fail to see how that is a relevant fact to printer buyers. 

“The ink problems aren’t bad anymore” - Company that sells proprietary ink

Printers and their ink. The greatest scam of the tech world.

That’s my thought, too. Printing a couple of pages a week for me is on the high end of my home printing. I’ve had the same toner cartridge in my laser for... years? It’s ugly, but it’s functional. And it’s Wi-Fi, so it doesn’t have to be publicly ugly. 

it could be 10x better and it still wouldn’t be good enough to get me to switch back to any kind of inkjet. As nearly everyone else has said, printing is just so infrequent today that it could easily be 6 months between printings as it is 6 days. All the while your ink that costs about $48 for 200 pages of color +…

And my first thought reading that is “Which one?”

“Yet” is the key word. Give it time, it’s only Tuesday.

Jeez, I can’t even keep up with all the messaging apps they keep killing off. Thank goodness they haven’t figured out how to kill hangouts yet. Most ADHD company ever with its apps. =/