From the Editor's Desk
Facebook: Bow down before the one you serve
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It is with no great pleasure that I announce the following announcement: Facebook has won. And there's not a damn thing anyone can do about it.
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From the Editor's Desk: Fix you ...
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Android updates are hard. And they're expensive. All the "shame lists" and pay-per-update ideas in the world won't change that.
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From the Editor's Desk: What's an app worth?
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Here we go again. A long-awaited app finally comes to Android — and the developer has the gall to ask for $3 a year to use the really good parts of it.
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From the Editor's Desk: Hot for hardware?
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We're now just two weeks out from Google I/O 2016. And this one bit of news has me pretty excited.
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From the Editor's Desk: Quick hits ...
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Since it's (another) working weekend, some quick hits to get a few things off my chest ...
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From the Editor's Desk: Real life in 360 degrees
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The world is in 360 degrees. it's about time our cameras caught up to it.
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From the Editor's Desk: Love & stagnation
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Two of my favorite connected home products haven't changed much in years. That's a little cause for concern, though there's nothing wrong with reliability.
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From the Editor's Desk: Going global ...
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New features always are a fun thing, and we've just rolled out a long-awaited improvement to the site — particularly for those of you outside the United States.
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The silliest argument in all of Android ...
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Not having an app drawer isn't exactly a new phenomenon, nor is it something any self-respecting smartphone nerd should ever worry about.
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From the Editor's Desk: It's true, all of it
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There's that line in "The Force Awakens" where Han Solo gives the tl;dr of everything you missed so far. "It's true. All of it." Great line. And applicable to much of what I'm seeing today.
MWC 2016
From the Editor's Desk: Damn, that was fun
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Home, finally, from what probably is our best Mobile World Congress yet.
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From the Editor's Desk: Going big in Barcelona ...
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We head to Barcelona this week for Mobile World Congress. And as we do every year, we're going to cover the crap out of it.
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From the Editor's Desk: The return of Google Podcasts ...
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Podcasts never went anywhere, and they're about to get a big boost from finally returning to one of Google's core apps.
Travel
From the Editor's Desk: Android & airlines
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Airlines are slowly getting better in-flight entertainment, and we're slowly starting to see take better advantage of the phones we have anyway.
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Understanding what makes EMUI tick
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The name of the game, folks, is "battery life at all costs."
CES 2016
From the Editor's Desk: Dust settles on Vegas
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So, CES. Now that the dust has settled — it mostly was kept down by a rainy week in the desert anyway — I'm trying to think about what stood out, at least from an Android point of view.
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From the Editor's Desk: World without headphone jacks
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I asked a couple of folks who make phones for a living about what getting rid of the 3.5mm headphone jack might mean.
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From the Editor's Desk: Forgotten families
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And we're officially at the point of the year in which Google makes good on its promises to get products and services out the door before the new year. But something's missing.
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From the Editor's Desk: Expanding in India
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Funny thing about traveling: Once you start learning about other parts of the world, you tend to want to learn more.
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From the Editor's Desk: The audacity of the Facebook
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I love the audacity of Facebook, the company, and how it rightly (yet so wrongly) operates under the assumption that you're using Facebook, you'll continue to use Facebook and that there's absolutely no way you'll ever quit Facebook — ever.