>Even when ostensibly not functioning, the Xbox One can run in a low-powered state, ready to be snapped on at a moment's notice.
The same is true for most phones and tablets, and for laptops including Macbooks and Chromebooks(which is worse in some aspects since it has paltry storage forcing you to store everything in the cloud).
Phones are worse since people carry them everywhere including bathrooms and bedrooms. Not to mention Google Glass. Not sure why they're not a big deal but the Xbox One is.
The key that the wiki mentions isn't for spying, its for verifying digital signatures on third party cryptography service provider packages. It was named as such because CSP packages that are exported outside of USA have to receive export approval, something the NSA performed. So the NSAkey was named because it was a digital signature proving that a package had either received proper review or didn't need it (If it was for US only).
Not saying that NSA isn't spying, just that the key mentioned is not used for that purpose.
Google isn't above doing things that harm people to make them more money. Like the steadily decreasing background contrast and lack of borders separating ads from search results. Older people are far less cognizant of borders and thus would click on ads thinking they're search results.
The difference is that the negative Microsoft news tends to float on top of sites like HN more than positive news, and the reverse is true for Google so this alters perceptions of people.
Windows Phone is more open than iOS in the sense that you have multiple OEMs making multiple types of phones targeting different markets unlike the iPhone. For example, the Lumia 521 is just $130 off contract in the US. Also the walled garden prevents the malware problem that Android has. So it can be considered as a happy medium between iOS and Android.
I am glad that there's more competition in the marketplace rather than just Apple and Android and that there are companies looking beyond earnings in their next quarter.
Apple could have probably made more money over the years by selling Macs with Windows and retiring their own OS.
Competition is good, for example see the flat look and concentration on typography that both Android and iOS borrowed from Windows Phone.
That's why I don't get all the deriding of Firefox OS and Ubuntu Phone. Android has plenty hardware OEMs behind it.
>99.9% of people who will buy this phone will never have a need for 41 megapixels. But they'll buy it just the same.
The tech does make normal pictures look better because of the oversampling. Not to mention optical image stabilization for reducing blur and shake in both image and video.
The same is true for most phones and tablets, and for laptops including Macbooks and Chromebooks(which is worse in some aspects since it has paltry storage forcing you to store everything in the cloud).
Phones are worse since people carry them everywhere including bathrooms and bedrooms. Not to mention Google Glass. Not sure why they're not a big deal but the Xbox One is.