It all comes down to Google not sticking with a single solution product and being too scared to tell the carriers to STFU. It’s not like 2007 where there was danger from other OS competitors Blackberry, Palm, Nokia, and Microsoft. There’s no other real competitors now to Android and iOS. Apple isn’t going to…

I don’t like RCS to be specific. It’s trash. It’s another carrier controlled standard that’s nearly 15 years old (and has things a 15 year old standard has, and not a lot of modern things). The standard is tied to your mobile number (which is tied to a carrier) and cannot be easily modified without a ton of…

iOS has had widgets for a few years now...

It’s common for Android users to complain that they would never use iOS because it doesn’t offer “XYZ”- but generally iOS doesn’t do that because it doesn’t need to, XYZ is a solution to a problem that doesn’t really exist on the platform. iMessage works out of the box better than any other standard sms/mms offering an…

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Long time google user, that switched to iphone 5 years. I think it’s hilarious that Google/Android fanbois cry about Apple bullying people into using iOS, especially with the green/blue bubbles. Google does a lot of things well (search, Chrome, Maps, Earth, Calendar, Gmail), but their messaging offerings are a complete…

Even if you’re fired for cause, there’s still a payout (just lower than other situations). Generally a change in ownership provides an ironclad severance clause regardless of why you’re then terminated by the new owners. But regardless, the main nut is the stock he already owns. You can’t take already vested stock.

Infinite doesn’t feel like a game developed over 6 years. It feels like a first draft that was rushed into final form without adequate revisions- a 50 page term paper written the night before it was due. Yes, obviously COVID had a massive global impact, but the pandemic started March 2020, and Infinite was originally …

Most importantly, when are they releasing goddamn grifball?!?

KoH you as a solo player have to clock the most time in a single zone (that moves over time), uncontested by other players to get your timer running. Strongholds is a team game where your team has to hold 2 of 3 non-moving zones to get their timer going (with a bonus if you can hold all 3).

Ask any Halo fan, they would have GLADLY paid $60 if they got a functioning game with co-op, forge, unlockable cosmetic content, a functional battle-pass, slayer on launch, more than 3 maps. They released half a game for the purpose of gouging whales, and used the FTP as an excuse

Reminiscent of the flash “high frequency trading” that took place in the late Aughts, where traders with super fast internet and bots were able to see buy orders that were incoming, rapidly buy those shares (which increase in value with more people looking to buy), and then rapidly sell them to fulfill that order,…

That was my first thought, “you sonsabitches were holding out on us!” I have half a mind to forgo the initial 2023 model (allegedly coming out this spring) and waiting for the 2024, in hopes that it has more than 6 shades of black/grey/white to choose from

Fahrenheit is superior for the similar reasons why metric is so good- it’s incredibly precise. It’s also a  system with a relationship to human lives and activities. Below 0F is focking cold as balls and dangerous to be outside without adequate protection for extended periods of time, it’s below the freezing point of…

Yes, Celsius is based upon WATER temperature of boiling and freezing. And for science, celsius is superior.

It’s just frustrating. I bought the OG Xbox because I played Halo at a friend’s house. I’ve invested thousands of dollars in MS walled garden (bought every xbox console, countless controllers, Xbox Live since day 1, idk how many games, got my friends to buy MS consoles as well) because of the experience they provided.…

“Open world” in quotes because its actually 3 different large staging areas in-between the scripted indoor missions. Until the end of the game you can’t leave the island you’re on. Copy/paste foliage and copy/paste encounters. I’d wager that they had most of the linear indoor missions completed, but there was a…

I’m generally not a fan of 343. They’re comprised of developers who didn’t actually like Halo, and they’ve taken active steps to make it a clone of whatever’s hot in the market. Fortunately, Infinite got away from the class-based COD format and went back to an arena based shooter, which is good. But the initial…

I once read that English isn’t really anyone’s home language (e.g. Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, etc etc). It’s the language used to communicate with people from a different area; business; and the internet. So with the web you’re going to get things in english and typically American-style customs. Hence…

The downside of the grappling hook is it makes the transition to MP harder. In prior Halos, you’d change tactics going between Campaign/MP because your opponents were smarter and shielded. But here I got super reliant on using the GH to move around the field, snatch ammo/coils, and close the gap. In MP you get the GH…