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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #525 on: May 16, 2013, 08:53:14 PM »
actually i'm pretty interested in the S4 nexus, full google update support, an sd card, significant accesory support... i like this alot

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« Reply #526 on: May 16, 2013, 10:02:48 PM »
If that's what this is, it sucks. I was under the impression that it was along the lines of a Rhapsody or a Spotify Premium, where you pay X amount per month for unlimited access to the entire catalog of songs the provider has access to. Since I currently use Google Music as well as Slacker Premium, being able to consolidate into just Google would be pretty great, but if it's a glorified Pandora clone then to hell with it.

Free 30 day trial - give it a shot. And if you do the trial by the end of June you get it for $7.99/mo instead. I gave it a whirl for a few minutes on the ride home, I like it. The audio quality is definitely better than Slacker or Pandora (even with the BS "high quality" settings).
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #527 on: May 17, 2013, 10:05:44 AM »
actually i'm pretty interested in the S4 nexus, full google update support, an sd card, significant accesory support... i like this alot

I can't justify $649. That's going to be near £500 if it comes here, which means it will be the same price as a bog standard S4.

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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #528 on: May 17, 2013, 04:29:36 PM »
what's wrong with that, instead of samsungs shitty features you get the nexus experience... fine trade imo

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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #529 on: May 17, 2013, 06:43:27 PM »
Having a hard time getting Android studio to work so i'm moving back to eclipse for now.


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Google so far is being more aggresive with their game platform than apple was with game center.


Also google can be a weird company. Despite Glass not being mentioned at the keynote, the glass developer sessions apparently were the most sought after.
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #530 on: May 17, 2013, 09:23:25 PM »
Google is aggressive with its game platform because it has to be. Apple would have and did have far better game support than Google if it had no centralized gaming system whatsoever. Google's playing from behind, so they have to try harder.
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« Reply #531 on: May 17, 2013, 09:40:18 PM »
Google is aggressive with its game platform because it has to be. Apple would have and did have far better game support than Google if it had no centralized gaming system whatsoever. Google's playing from behind, so they have to try harder.


Well yeah, but that doesn't really excuse Gamecenter being crap. Though being shoddy is pretty consistent for apple on a software level these days.
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« Reply #532 on: May 17, 2013, 10:26:09 PM »
GameCenter isn't crap, it just doesn't try to do that much. What it does it does well.
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #533 on: May 18, 2013, 09:01:15 AM »
If getting completely ignored by everyone is what it does, then yes, it does that well.
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #534 on: May 18, 2013, 11:53:03 AM »
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« Reply #535 on: May 18, 2013, 11:56:19 AM »
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #536 on: May 18, 2013, 02:14:33 PM »
If getting completely ignored by everyone is what it does, then yes, it does that well.

It's basically PSN: centralized friends list and achievements. It does those things decently well. Thing is, most iOS games are single-player, and a lot of the big ones that aren't don't use GameCenter. Apple doesn't particularly care, since it's still getting almost universal support, and if the players cared either the developers or Apple or both would do something about it.
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #537 on: May 18, 2013, 03:38:40 PM »
Too bad GameCenter doesn't allow you to message friends within the app.

Google Play Games is linked to your Google+ profile, so it's automatically better.
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #538 on: May 18, 2013, 05:02:43 PM »
what's wrong with that, instead of samsungs shitty features you get the nexus experience... fine trade imo

That's a fine trade, but the price is basically standard levels. You either trade the stock full-price experience for the nexus still-full-price experience.

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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #539 on: May 19, 2013, 02:56:14 PM »
Just installed Android Studio (well yesterday, but just realized I had to set up JAVA_HOME without the \bin\ in it. Hopefully I'll something sexy within the next couple of months. Algorithms and Data Structures will be keeping me busy for the next 7 weeks.
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« Reply #540 on: May 24, 2013, 01:40:31 AM »
I'm here to report that Brandogg was right *gasp*. Having personally used Rhapsody, Slacker, Rdio and Spotify, I can conclusively say that Google Music All Access is easily the best music subscription service currently available.
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #541 on: May 24, 2013, 01:09:25 PM »
Just got a erection.
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #542 on: June 06, 2013, 03:05:01 AM »
Google just launched Google Keyboard: aka the keyboard from the nexus series.

It's good to see them offering nexus-like features elsewhere.

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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #543 on: June 16, 2013, 05:29:47 PM »
So I checked the Apple website outlining the new features of iOS 7. 

Pretty much everything on that list was done by Android ages ago.  Is there anything significance that iOS 7 brings to the table that Android hasn't already done that I missed?

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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #544 on: June 16, 2013, 10:53:10 PM »
Tying the phone to the original Apple ID (so you can't restore a "lost" phone and use it as new) is a new feature, that's going to screw tons of people potentially.
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #545 on: June 16, 2013, 10:58:53 PM »
Tying the phone to the original Apple ID

Is this a "real" feature, or a Microsoft feature?

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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #546 on: June 16, 2013, 11:03:59 PM »
The way Apple is selling it, if someone steals your phone, you can take solstice in knowing that they can't activate it, even if you remote wipe it. But in reality, it could **** regular users over.

Anyway, apparently, Samsung bought one million copies of Jay-Z's new album for all its Galaxy customers.
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« Reply #547 on: June 16, 2013, 11:20:09 PM »
The way Apple is selling it, if someone steals your phone, you can take solstice in knowing that they can't activate it, even if you remote wipe it. But in reality, it could **** regular users over.

Anyway, apparently, Samsung bought one million copies of Jay-Z's new album for all its Galaxy customers.

Yes, you can be assured that twice a year the sun will reach it's highest or lowest point in relation to the equator, in case someone steals your phone.

Sorry, I had to. I'm sure you meant solace.
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« Reply #548 on: June 16, 2013, 11:24:19 PM »
No, it was pretty funny. I totally meant solace. Can't even blame iOS autocorrect on that one.
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #549 on: July 06, 2013, 03:33:11 PM »
after some fun dealing with recovering a comprimised gmail account i activated the two step account recovery system google offers, there is just one problem

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The codes that you’ll get with 2-step verification don’t work with all applications. There are a few applications that use information from your Google Account that require application-specific passwords (ASPs).
One example of something that requires an asp is pretty much any Android device running Gingerbread or below...

Please raise your hand if you see a problem here...

I don't normally see fragmentation to be as big of a problem as people make it out to be but that is just absurd.