No, it was Madden (and other assorted junk sports titles) by EA, which first showed that you could successfully release the same damn game every year with minimal changes and charge the dimwitted among gamers a new title price for providing next to no real value. I used COD as an example of that legacy. You could add…

Moreover, the used and rental (don't forget they are shafting renters here too) game market has existed for decades and no publishers from those begotten era's collapsed in from the evils of used game sales. The NES, SNES, etc. were clearly successful enough to get us where we are today.

Glad to see Twitter back tracking, if technically doing it through a public knowledge loophole.

Yeah, actually I can... Depending on who you read, OSX consumer desktop share runs somewhere between 5 and 15 percent. In a market with only 3 competitors, the third of which (linux) claims a measly 1%, you can definitely make the case that the competitor with ~85% of the market owns it. OSX is and likely always will…

5 years ago I would've agreed, but Ubuntu and Linux Mint have come a long way... i would actually call them a fully featured day to day OS i think nowadays.

Apple owns the desktop? WHA?!?!?!

One word... well, one concatenated word... MediaMonkey.... greatest shit ever!

Not sure I agree... We've heard that argument before with Google and China and all it did was lead the company astray and cause them headache later. The fact that they've developed a tool already signals their willingness to filter content in order to gain market share. Once they've set that precedent, only worthless…

No doubt, i was more commenting on the hypocracy of the Gawker network as it declares Google "evil" for a few minor privacy changes while mostly ignoring a REAL story like this one.

What, no outrage here over Twitters steps to censor their content? Google tries to increase cross product integration by showing social results in a space which was formerly empty and everyone here is all "grab your torches and pitchforks", but Twitter is about to cow-tow to the fascists and censor their material, and…

Ad Block Plus is a godsend for general browsing, but we should all remember that our favorite "free" online services are almost always ad supported... I've set up adblock to whitelist my favorite free online apps (anything google, evernote, etc) and even occasionally intentionally click an ad. People tend to forget…

Exactly, you are talking about something no one else is... I and the other posters said they ought to, not they can... no one here questioned whether they could be jailed, merely pointed out the irony that they can't... seems you are arguing with yourself.

So in short, yes your view of morality is so ridiculously narrow as to beleive that if it's not enshrined in law and is at least quietly accepted by society, it's not worth considering. Yikes.

"In this instance, the integration is lame b/c it's placing Google content over more relevant content."

Right, and that's seems to be the crux of you and everyone opposed's argument... it's bad mmkay! The problem is that I've yet to see an article which succinctly points out the real problem with it other than "it's bad mmmkay". Just as yours doesn't really establish a reason that integration is bad (particularly since…

Those don't appear to be mixed into your search results at all... I thought all this hullabaloo was because they were inserted into search results, thereby prioritizing their social network above you getting unbiased search results. That was your whole argument, that they've broken their old mantra by "incorporating…

Fatally shooting a man weilding a crowbar in the age of tazers seems excessive to me frankly. I always crack up at the "law enforcement is never wrong crowd"... when they taze/mace any and everyone including peaceful protestors, it's totally justified as it's "non-lethal force" and needed for crowd control, but when…

I'm going to start counting the ratio of Apple fluff peices and Google hate rants to other posts by Jesus... I'm guessing it's at least a 20 to 1 ratio.

And on the flipside, the victims of this anti-competitive law (written by Big Pharma lawyers) are those who -could- get real canadian meds at half the price of the united states but can't because it's not even legal to advertise canadian drugs, much less purchase them in the US.

"But those are two entirely different issues.