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.
Android updates are hard. And they're expensive. All the "shame lists" and pay-per-update ideas in the world won't change that.
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.
We're now just two weeks out from Google I/O 2016. And this one bit of news has me pretty excited.
Since it's (another) working weekend, some quick hits to get a few things off my chest ...
The world is in 360 degrees. it's about time our cameras caught up to it.
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.
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.
Not having an app drawer isn't exactly a new phenomenon, nor is it something any self-respecting smartphone nerd should ever worry about.
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.
Home, finally, from what probably is our best Mobile World Congress yet.
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.
Podcasts never went anywhere, and they're about to get a big boost from finally returning to one of Google's core apps.
Airlines are slowly getting better in-flight entertainment, and we're slowly starting to see take better advantage of the phones we have anyway.
The name of the game, folks, is "battery life at all costs."
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.
I asked a couple of folks who make phones for a living about what getting rid of the 3.5mm headphone jack might mean.
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.
Funny thing about traveling: Once you start learning about other parts of the world, you tend to want to learn more.
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.