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radarthekat said:

Ricky Gervais is showing his ignorance.  

In other news, let see a show of hands for the most ridiculous use of a word in the English language.   “Woke.”   What an unimaginative and poorly thought up way of expressing oneself.  

his use of "woke" was more mocking the word than trying to apply it intelligently.

wood1208 said:

If past is any indication! "Google is selling Motorola, the iconic handset maker it bought for $12.5 billion in May of 2012, to Chinese PC maker Lenovo for $2.91 billion". Fitbit should have merged with Garmin's wearables division.

From Google "I think the Motorola transaction has been a success for us. Financially, we bought the asset for $12.5 billion. It had $3 billion in cash; we were able to sell the Home division for $2.5 billion; we ended selling the handset division for $3 billion. There were some other tax assets as well. When you work through the math, you realize we spent between $2.5 billion and $3.5 billion for the patent assets." the numbers appear to make sense - Google bought Motorola strictly for the patents and when compared to the Nortel patent auction they didn't really over pay, they actually got a deal. Additionally, with Lenovo taking over the handsets Google still benefits off the production of Android devices without the headache of production (only left to focus on the Pixel which admitted the 4 is actually pretty much garbage even by Android user standards). I would've rather Apple bought Fitbit for the platform - Apple's hardware + Fitbit's fitness platform would've decimated the wearable market.

I've beat up on AirPods in the past but I have to say these are pretty solid. They feel much more secure in my ears and I don't think the active noise canceling has been reviewed fairly in some of the videos I seen. I had them on in my office, which has an open floor plan, and I didn't hear a thing going on around me - with my head down facing the screen I couldn't even tell I had 20 people around me talking and doing their thing.

ericthehalfbee said:

I hope Apple posts a $90 billion holiday quarter.

Won’t affect me as I don’t own any Apple stock. But it will be hilarious seeing all the rage from the haters whose happiness depends on Apple failing.

Like those Apple fanboys to pray on the failure of anyone remotely seen as a competitor - maybe it's a case of you give what you get?

javacowboy said:

Honest question:  Have any of you actually tried Surfaces, for work or otherwise?

What are you impressions?  What are the distinct pros and cons?

I've had mine for a while now and have not had any issues but it will all depend on what your intentions for using it are - I don't need any heavy processing so it does the trick. I wouldn't recommend it if high-end photo editing or video editing is part of your job but I also wouldn't recommend the Macbook Air for that either.