@Nightskyre: Go read Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near. You'll feel much better.

Couldn't use current 3D shutter glasses; they'd have to be modified to turn both eyes on & off in sync, rather than alternately.

@Ioan McAvoy: Good music is enjoyable to listen to, on even the crappiest speaker.

@esprit-follet: Good news! AdBlock for Chrome extension.

@Knoxximus Kiryu: *reads comments*

Others have said this, but to reiterate: 150ms input lag IS NOT THE SAME as 150ms ping. It makes YOUR character react slowly, not just everyone else's. It's like playing underwater.

@unibrow4o9: It uses push notifications to alert the phone to an incoming intent, without needing a receiving app to be running.

@TXMorgan:Not even if it did this?

@X-07: You ask for Cortana, you get Clippy.

Funny, Molyneux was telling people a couple weeks ago that the fully-fledged Milo & Kate "absolutely exists", but is not being shown to the press, for "a very interesting reason" that he can't tell us.

@Archaotic: I doubt anybody is taking the "backlash" any more seriously than the hype, since it's still unreleased.

@fa11enSpectre: This is why totalitarian governments are a bad idea

@antpwny: Using your phone to play mp3 files from its own memory uses a heckuva lot less battery than streaming them over a wireless connection.

@Gyaruson 2.0: You don't release a "game-changing" device over halfway into your console's lifespan.

@Kayno: Also, you wouldn't be using these apps in the first place - they did literally nothing for the user, and most users immediately uninstalled the apps anyway.

A game that's iPhone4 only? Gasp! #Fragmentation !

There's a word for posts like this: FUDvertisement.

@Bs Baldwin: Sure, if any. And what apps are malware on iPhone, WebOS, WinMob and indeed MacOS & PC too.

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@Omakad: So instead you'd take e.g. iPhone, where apps that do these same things can do it completely silently, with no notice.