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Rumor: Microsoft to Take Cut of Xbox One Used Game Sells From Retailers

Posted by :Marcus Summers On : 05/24/2013
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Category: Gaming, Microsoft, Xbox One

Courtesy of DigitalTrends.com

While it is just a rumor, it seems we may have a bit of clarification as to how the used game sells of Xbox One titles might go down.

According to ConsoleDeals, it seems that Microsoft will charge £35 (~$53) for a new licenses to play a second hand game.  They state their source as a high-up employee within a video game retailer in the United Kingdom.

According to MCV, it appears that there will be a system in place to handle the transactions of used titles from the selling back to the store to the repurchasing by another customer.

A gamer walks into a retailer and hands over the game they wish to sell. This will only be possible at retailers who have agreed to Microsoft’s T&Cs and more importantly integrated Microsoft’s cloud-based Azure pre-owned system into its own.

The game is then registered as having been traded-in on Microsoft’s system. The consumer who handed it over will subsequently see the game wiped from their account – hence the until now ambiguous claim from Phil Harrison that the Xbox One would have to ‘check in’ to Microsoft’s servers every 24 hours.

There is no word on where the price will be paid, but I’m pretty sure that they will take it out at the store which would allow you to essentially purchase used titles as you used to.  The only thing it seems to affect is the price of the used game.  It would be nice if the prices would go down based on how much Microsoft thinks the publisher should be seeing on the return but could cause rifts between them and 3rd party publishers if Microsoft starts trying to phase them out.

Consoles Aren’t All About Games Anymore

Posted by :Marcus Summers On : 05/24/2013
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Category: Android, Apple, Facebook, Gaming, Google, iOS, iPhone, MajorRant, Microsoft, Opinion, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Network, Sony, Sony Entertainment Network, Steam, Technology, Twitter, Valve, Xbox 360, Xbox Live, Xbox One

Its been three days since the reveal of the Microsoft’s new console, the Xbox One, and we’ve heard and read a lot of things about it.  The one thing that seems to be bothering so many people about it is the fact that during the reveal, a lot of things were shown/not shown/told/unconfirmed about the system.  Many people were upset that Microsoft decided to focus on the TV functionality of the system as opposed to the games. It also seemed to go the same with Sony even though people don’t seem to remember that.  none of that actually bothers me.  I’m rather ecstatic about the prospect of new systems (even though I was originally reluctant).  I must say that from what they showed during those events have made me look forward to these products more than any other product to date (other than the Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga).  Let me explain…

Yesterday, I was having a conversation with a couple of friends of mine.  It initially started off with them discussing the reveal event.  It was pointed out that the reveal and moreover the device wasn’t actually trying to target gamers, but the mainstream public.  To them, it came off as a “..smart tv/console hybrid.” Another stated that this might “…spread  themselves thin trying to cover those different avenues…” having “…a lot of bland features instead of one or two really good ones…” But this is where I disagree.

A lot of people saw that this was a terrible showing of the Xbox One.  They figured it was really much a waste of time as the right things weren’t shown. However, the only people saying this were the gamers.  I feel like it only appears that way because you were looking at it from the wrong side.  Its almost like trying to a movie from the outside of a movie theater.  Microsoft essentially knew what they were doing yesterday in the same vain that Sony knew what they were doing back February.  The events were the same even though they did talk about two very different things.

When Sony went on stage, for the first part of their presentation, they announced the PlayStation 4 was coming and showed us a controller and camera.  Then they started getting real technical with their presentation about the hardware specs and special system software features for the system without showing many games or the console itself.  Now, Microsoft goes on stage, at least shows a console and all essential gear, then dives into what they think will set their system apart from the rest.  However, when both companies did so, it seemed to draw the ire of the Internet masses (or at least from what I could see from gaming blogs, tweets, and Google+ posts).  What’s even funnier is when Microsoft failed, the Internet held up Sony as the winner even though 3 months ago they were ready to throw them in the fire. Others stayed true and just vowed off consoles and figured they just stick with or move to Steam.

I feel like what’s happening now between these companies and their apparent consumer base is a split.  For years, gamers have always had a dedicated device to play a video game on.  But I feel that they forget that video games, when they first came out, were considered toys.  Just about everyone who plays video games now and actually cares about these things were probably given Ataris and Nintendos for Christmas back in the 80s as it was to be a toy enjoyed on a TV.  The marketing for these devices wasn’t even geared towards the adults who were purchasing them, but the kids who were screaming for them.  It seems that 20-30 years later, these kids never really grew up.

Gaming has changed so much in that time and the people who were playing these consoles are now making them.  They realize that they aren’t 10 years old anymore and that they have other things to deal with.  They have work, family, and friends.  But they also know where they came from and what their “first love” is, so they try to bridge the gap between what they enjoy now as an adult and what they grew up with.  They realize that they can’t play Gears of War when the children come in. So, why not have something that could quickly switch it off from you decapitating some dude to Big Bird or Elmo. I’m pretty sure your wife doesn’t want to see you have Kratos nailing some nymph in a hot tub so why not turn on “Love, Actually” on Netflix when she walks into the room. I feel that people do not understand these things because they don’t live the same lives as most of the people who engineer these devices.

Another thing is that it appears that people forget how a business works.  It isn’t just a place you go to make money or spend money, but is there to make as much money as it can from the most people it can.  Microsoft realized this buy actually adding TV and Internet capabilities into its system.  They knew that they already had the gamers.  Now they want another piece of the pie. They want what Apple and Google have which is the mass consumer market.  ”If they can provide networked home solutions to their users why can’t I?”Microsoft began molding the Xbox 360 into that dream and has apparently now realized it by giving the software proper hardware to handle it. Microsoft didn’t add all the streaming content to the 360 as a convenience for gamers.  They put that there so they could sell the device to non-gamers.  People who didn’t want to pay an arm and a leg for HD cable when you could just get a broadband connection and plug it into the Xbox.

We have entered into a world of entitlement for many people.  Many expect that they should always get what they want when they want it and that they actually deserve it.  Well, I’m here to tell you today, that that’s not true.  Just think of the engineers…All the nymph sex they’re missing…

The Major’s Take on the Xbox One Reveal

Posted by :Marcus Summers On : 05/22/2013
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Category: Apps, Camera, Gaming, Major's House, Microsoft, Music, Opinion, PlayStation 4, Rumors, Security, Self Reflection, Sony, Technology, Windows, Windows Phone, Xbox 360, Xbox Live

Courtesy of Xbox.com

So, unless you’ve been living under a rock lately, you would have known that, yesterday, Microsoft revealed their next generation console, the Xbox One.  Here are some thoughts I have on the console as we currently know it.

The Name

So, what’s in a name?  From what I’ve been seeing so far online, a lot of people are scratching their heads as to why Microsoft decided to go this way with the naming. It, however, makes sense to me as it denotes that the device will be the one-stop-shop for all your entertainment needs.  And I’m not going to argue with them on that.  The device essentially takes everything that you have in your entertainment center and jams it into one device.  Then, there is the fact that some people (i.e. the entire Internet) wanted to call the bloody thing the 720 which is about as insane me celebrating my 50th birthday next year (I’m 25 now).

I do think that the Xbox Infinity name would have been a good choice for a name, but the justification for it didn’t make sense as they were saying that “if you take the “8″ from Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 and turn it sideways, it works!” Maybe turning things up on its side make it work better.

The Specs

As far as the specs go on this thing, for a console, its bananas!  Along with Sony, Microsoft has managed to cram a lot of hardware into these gaming and multimedia packages and some people might go out of their way to say that these things are about as powerful as the most powerful PCs on the market. Any self-respecting technophile would know that that’s no true at all.

The tech that we are seeing in these consoles now were in PCs a couple of years ago and have since moved on from that.  The hardware in these consoles are awesome enough to handle what’s going on with the consoles from the non-resource intensive OS to background processing, but its not like these consoles have much to do in multitasking like PCs do and don’t need all that hardware to do so.  Essentially, a computer built in 2010 can handle what these consoles do today (or holiday 2013).

There are other additions though that make it nice to have like USB 3.0 which will allow for you to add high-speed drives to your system as you won’t be able to expand the 500GB drive that comes installed with every system.  They have added a Blu-ray drive to the system which will now allow them to ship all games on one disc. There is also HDMI In/Out for television pass through.

That’s right, the system is cable of bringing in an HDMI signal to allow the system to put a kind of overlay on top of whatever it is you are watching on TV.  While the overlay isn’t that important for me, I like the fact that I can pass my cable TV through the system and be able to switch between TV and the Xbox effortlessly.

The case, however, leaves something to be desired.  Upon first view of it, I really thought Microsoft was trying to sell me either a new cable box or a reboot of WebTV.  In all honesty, I’m pretty sure anyone could get away with calling it either what with all the things that its capable of.

Kinect 2.0

Nowadays, the Xbox isn’t the Xbox unless you talk about Kinect.  The sensor that was introduced in 2009 as Project Natal (its been a while since I’ve typed, heard or seen that name).  Since then, it has been a game-changer for the Xbox 360.  Putting you into the game with your body or allowing you do control the system with just your voice, the device truly was revolutionary.

With the Xbox One, Kinect is just integral to the system, its required. And due to that, a Kinect sensor will be included with every console.  This is similar to Sony’s move with including an PS Eye with every PS4.

While the new Kinect benefits from improved sensors, most of the wow factor came in the form of added gestures and voice commands.  The one that got me the most excited was being able to say “Xbox on” and the system turns on.  It finally helps me realize a dream that I can use my system without ever having to look for a controller.

This, however, raises privacy concerns as it points out what many would call a flaw in the system.  In order for it to do that, the system and Kinect would always have to be on and listening in order to turn on.  This naturally has some people up in arms as to what Microsoft is actually up to having something record us when we think its off.

Xbox Live

Not much was revealed at the even when it comes to Xbox Live, but The Verge was able to get some useful information from Phil Harrison, a corporate vice president of Microsoft.  It appears that this time around, when you buy a Gold subscription, you’re not buying it for the user, but for the system.  It seems they were only discussing the fact that the household may only have one Xbox as they didn’t discuss is this would work for multiple systems and multiple users, which I imagine could be a problem for Microsoft.

Now Here Comes the Dust

This was a big question coming into the event.  There had been many rumors circulating saying that the next Xbox would require an always-on connection.  It was also rumored that Microsoft would be doing away with used games as well. We hoped that today Microsoft would finally shed some light on the rumors and they would finally put our worst fears to bed.  They did not.

Wired states that from an email correspondance they received from Microsoft that while used games aren’t a thing of the past, it would also not be the most ideal way to purchase game.

Microsoft did say that if a disc was used with a second account, that owner would be given the option to pay a fee and install the game from the disc, which would then mean that the new account would also own the game and could play it without the disc.

There are other reports that are confirming it and many saying that they could charge as much as full retail.

On Kotaku, one of the writers caught up with Phil Harrison and asked what the official stance on always on connectivity seeing as it wasn’t really covered during the event.  It was initially stated that it wasn’t going to be always-on, however, it was going to require an internet connection.  Harrison went on further to say that the Xbox One will check for an internet connection at least once every 24 hours.

However, at Polygon, Microsoft sent them an email stating that most of these things were “potential scenarios” and that when the system releases, these may be non-issues.

Conclusion

All in all, what was shown yesterday was rather impressive.  As a technophile, I love all that I saw and could actually see the tech being implemented into my household.  However, given some of the logistics not being worked out, its hard to say when the device will actually be purchased.  As I normally use my Xbox as an all-in-one streaming solution similar to a Roku box that can play awesome video games, Microsoft will have to be able to show me that they deserve my money on the new system along with Xbox Live if they decide to put their streaming services behind the wall like they did for this current generation.

If it isn’t there come holiday season, I guess I could buy another Roku box…

Is this how Facebook is handling app updates?

Posted by :Marcus Summers On : 05/06/2013
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Category: Android, Facebook, Google

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So, I got this notification today from my Facebook app. I rather like it as it seems like they are trying to take charge of their app development and updating. I wonder, though, is it pulling the app from the Google Play Store as my phone updated from their and not from within the app.

Update:

It seems that you end up sideloading the app from Facebook and not coming from the Google Play Store…

Update 2:

It seems that Google has now put a rule in place that will stop this from happening.

TechCrunch points out the following line form the Dangerous Products section of Google Play Store’s terms and conditions:

An app downloaded from Google Play may not modify, replace or update its own APK binary code using any method other than Google Play’s update mechanism.

Many are speculating that this move wasn’t directly related to the way Facebook applied the update, but to try and keep others from using it to upload malicious code.

My Gaming Tastes as of Late

Posted by :Marcus Summers On : 05/03/2013
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Category: Gaming, Home Office, Major's House, Microsoft, Opinion, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Network, PSPlus, Self Reflection, Sony, Sony Entertainment Network, Technology, Work, Xbox 360, Xbox Live

Courtesy of pplware.sapo.pt

So, just before typing this, I just put Hitman: Absolution back in the GameFly envelop just 9 hours after having it in my hand for the first time.

Now from what I heard about the game, it was fairly decent and I’m not here to say otherwise.  From what I’ve played, it seemed okay. The reason why its going back to GameFly so soon is because I just couldn’t get into it.

I have what I feel like a lot of people might consider a dream job.  I work from home and given my hour change, I don’t ever have to come into the building unless I want to.  What may be unappealing about it is that I work 3rd shift and either nobody is awoke when I am locally (except for other 3rd shift coworkers) or I’m not awoke when everyone else is.

I state that to say that I have what seems like the most ideal opportunity to play video games with minimal distraction (occasionally, I have to do work, but there are pretty defined moments where there isn’t anything happening and my lunch break). This allows me to focus on the game a little more. It even helps for me to understand what kind of gamer I am and what games that I enjoy. Due to this, I am starting to understand that games like Hitman: Absolution and Max Payne 3 aren’t really my speed.  I’m not sure why.

I know this may sound very weak, but with Hitman, while I can solve problems given enough time, I’m not one to solve them with a gun pointed at me, let alone a dozen.  I understand that the game allows you to start over at various checkpoints and try again and is built to have the user try multiple approaches to the same problem, but I feel as if I don’t really have much time for that.  I feel its more about the openness of the game.  Its great that I can attack the problem from more than one angle, but its like a Rubik’s Cube. One turn one way may screw you in another way. Its a little too limiting for me with what you are able to use even though, from what I’ve seen of past Hitman games, it seems to add more things to it like “Instinct” to help make the game a little more accessible.

I’m starting to think that the only games that I like to play, besides various sports games (as they do not have much of and end game and I can pick up and play whenever), are strictly linear games that tell me where I’m supposed to go and have one specific problem to solve or completely open world games that allow me to chose what I want to do and once you do become somewhat linear after you made the choice.  This must be why I liked games such as Sleeping Dogs, Far Cry 3, the GTA series and Spec Ops: The Line (even though most of those games were open-world/linear mission).

I will continue to use GameFly to help out with any other gaming discoveries to see if there are more games that I may enjoy that I haven’t discovered.

Still not sure about Max Payne 3, though…

Nintendo 3DS XL: Making My Console Manufacture Life Complete

Posted by :Marcus Summers On : 04/29/2013
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Category: 3DS, Gaming, Microsoft, Mobile, Nintendo, PlayStation 3, Sony, Technology, Xbox 360, Xbox Live

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Friday was a hell of a day!

After working 11:30pm the night before to 8:30am (normal hours for my job), instead of going to sleep, I had a few errands to run. My lovely fiance left her work badge at home so I had to go take it to her and this started the snowball that was the 3DS journey.

After dropping off her badge, instead of going home, I decided to take a detour to what I had determined was the closest GameStop.  I was headed there with the intention of only buying Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. as I had not to long ago played the hour-long demo on provided by PlayStation Plus.  As I’m a fan of aerial combat games, I had to buy it (but more on that later).  Once I was in the store, I started looking around at all the consoles, used and new, they had in the store.  I know the one thing that I wanted that I didn’t have was a 3DS and seeing how more people have that than a Vita, I figured that I should probably get one as well sooner or later.

After I purchased my game and was heading home, thoughts were racing through my head.  I was thinking that due to some extra money I had earned from my job, I could possibly swing the purchase of one but quickly decided against paying for it outright.  I am paying for a wedding, you know.  So I began cooking up schemes that could get me a 3DS.  Maybe it was because of the lack of sleep (remember, I was working since 11:30pm the night before and really had been up for a few hours before then), but I came up with what I thought was the ultimate solution…

I WAS GOING TO SELL MY XBOX 360 to pay for it.  I figured because I wasn’t going to be paying for Xbox Live anytime soon, the system was just collecting dust downstairs.  I could sell it now, get the 3DS and when I wanted to play it again, I would just buy another one and call it a day. I figured that would work because by the time I would want to play my 360, the new system would be out, the price would have dropped on it and I wouldn’t be paying for a wedding anymore.

There was one thing stopping me from acting on such an impulse…time.  I didn’t really have much time to move on the plan as I had other things on my plate like getting a haircut and actually going into the office for a meeting.

By the time all that was over, the dream kind of died down a little bit as I was thinking about other things and kind of forgotten about it.  It wasn’t until I got home that I remembered that I had such a crazy plan and with no other plans stopping me, I began to act.  I called the GameStop closest to my house to get a quote if I were to sell it to them. I then observed on their website that they sold broken systems as well and asked them about the PS3 that died the day before the PSN came back online from the hack. They provided a quote that was so favorable that I didn’t really have to sell my 360.

After consulting with my fiance, I decided not to sell the 360 but sell the broken PS3 along with several games that I have beaten or have no interest in playing anymore.  I through them all in a bag and drove over to the mall and let them have at it.  After everything was said and done (I had to drive back to my house and grab cables for the broken PS3 including the HDMI cable that was connected to the 360), I was able to walk out of the store with a brand new Nintendo 3DS XL (thanks @Ind1fference for the suggestion) and a used copy of Super Mario 3D Land (my thoughts about it here) for about $45 which I feel really happy about.  I don’t ever think I’ve bought a system (portable or not) for full retail, which in my opinion, is truly dope!

Hopefully, I’ll have a review up soon as this was supposed to be the review but ended up being my harrowing tail to obtain the 3DS!

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Super Mario 3D Land: Write it Down and Make it Plain

Posted by :Marcus Summers On : 04/29/2013
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Category: 3DS, Gaming, MajorRant, Mobile, Nintendo

Courtesy of VideoGamesBlogger.com

Now here me out.  I’m not saying that I’m a lazy bum and want things handed to me (however, I could be viewed as the former).  What I want to know, though, is it still okay that we have to have a certain amount of something extra in order to progress in video games.

Out of my gaming spending spree I went on over the weekend, I picked up a 3DS XL (review coming soon) and a copy of Super Mario 3D Land.  I went with this title thinking that Mario games tend to be a low barrier to entry when it comes to gaming, especially on a Nintendo platform.  I figured that it would occupy me enough until I refilled my bank account with more paycheck.

I took it home, and after I finished taking all my gadget pron shots, I popped the game in and started playing.  The game is pretty good and the 3D was impressive (but not enough for me to want keep it off more than I kept it on).  As it is the only game that I have, in the past couple of days, I made some decent progress. Then it happened…

I hit a wall!  Not so much the wall where I couldn’t stand playing anymore.  I just couldn’t progress any further regardless of how many levels I completed.  Apparently, the goal of the game is to find 3 star coins per map in order to progress smoothly through the game and I had only been playing it to unlock the levels as I went along, not to accumulate the star coins as this wasn’t really made apparent.  The only thing that told me I might need these star coins were the special levels sprinkled through the worlds.

As I write this post, I come to the realization that maybe the main point of the game wasn’t just to advance like it was for every other Mario I played growing up (mind you, I stopped at Mario 64).  Maybe they felt like Mario games just had it too easy and needed more of a challenge.  Passing the level isn’t enough. They want you to go on a scavenger hunt. As I stated earlier, there wasn’t an indication that I would need the star coins to progress further in the game as the only places they tend to show up were on levels that were optional to play.

Now, I’ve played games where I would need a certain amount of an item to continue on to the next level, but, normally, you are given enough just by completing other levels so this doesn’t become much of an issue and doesn’t keep you from enjoying the game. Also, these games let you know that those items are required to progress in the game and doesn’t assume that you were actively seeking out the items in the hopes that you won’t need to worry about them later.

Nintendo, I’m just asking, let me know before you want to throw that curve ball.  If it wasn’t for the fact that I don’t own another 3DS game (or DS for that matter), I would have just tossed SMB3DL off to the side and started playing something else…

Guacamelee’s Cross Control Leaves Something to be Desired

Posted by :Marcus Summers On : 04/29/2013
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Category: Gaming, Google, Home Office, MajorRant, Mobile, Nintendo, Opinion, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Network, PS Vita, Sony, Sony Entertainment Network, Technology

Courtesy of TheParanoidGamer.com

So, this weekend, I came across some extra money (mainly my overtime money for being on-call from the last weekend) and I decided I’d treat myself to a few video games.  The others I’ll go into later on (maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe never as I might forget), but the one I do want to talk about now is Guacamelee.

Guacamelee is a downloadable PSN title developed by Drinkbox Studios and is available for both the PS3 and PSVita. Aside from its gameplay (which is awesome but can be frustrating if you aren’t fast enough), the game is pretty awesome because it can be purchased once and playable and both platforms (cross-buy) and you can use the Vita as a second controller to allow for a second player or to have it as a map at all times so you don’t have to hit Select to access it.

However, that is where I have my problem with the game.  The steps to access the cross-control functionality weren’t easily spelled out leaving many people in many forums (including myself) trying to figure out how you could do it.  It took the following YouTube video for me to figure out what was going on and what exactly I could do with the feature.

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As you can see in the demo, you don’t go to the app clearly marked “Cross Controller”, you have to start the Remote Play app proper.  For those who have used Remote Play before, this may be kind of confusing as that feature is normally used to control the PS3 itself and not to really play the game.

But it doesn’t stop there.  Once you are connected,  you can’t really control the game with it if you were player one.  This kind of sucks seeing as once its connected it provides you with a map.  What am I going to do with that? Hang it beside my monitor and use it like a rear view mirror of sorts? And while that may work for me, what about those who actually play their PS3s on TVs and not HD monitors.  It does, however, work if you needed a second controller.

Its not a big gamebreaker, but when you have the WiiU provided the functionality (even though that’s about all its good for), it would have been nice to get similar functionality with the PS3/Vita combo.

Still like the game, though…

Android is an OS, Not a Phone

Posted by :Marcus Summers On : 03/28/2013
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Category: Android, Apple, Fedora, Google, HTC, iOS, iPhone, LG, Linux, MajorRant, Microsoft, Mobile, Motorola, Nexus, Opinion, Samsung, Sony, South Korea, Technology, Ubuntu, Windows, Windows Phone

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Lately, I’ve been hearing a lot of people griping and complaining about how there are so many “Android phones” in the market.  They say that not a day goes by before there is another Android product being announced in some form or fashion.

I, for one, do not believe this is true.  At the moment, there are only a handful of handset manufacturers that exist out there today release Android based smartphones.  They are Samsung, HTC, LG, Motorola and Sony.  There are some smaller ones and, quite frankly, I don’t even think Sony even belongs in the list and LG only just made it because it was involved with the Nexus 4.  So, with only 4 big players in the Android smartphone market, how is it that there are people saying that the frequency in which phones are announced is so high?

I think the misconceptions comes from when the devices are being hyped in the market.  Many different outlets will essentially talk about the same device in different ways.  It also doesn’t help when the device is going to different carriers and is augmented in some form or fashion.  Examples of this is the Samsung Galaxy SII brand of devices.  These devices saw multiple iterations between countries and carriers to where it would seem like a phone was being released maybe once a week, but in actuality, it was basically the same phone coming out in different countries in carriers with slight modifications to make them different.

Another thing I think that people fail to realize is that Android is actually an operating system and not a phone. Its as simple as this: Android is to smartphone what Windows is to computer.  Android was an mobile operating system that was developed by Android before it was acquired by Google.  Google then allowed device manufactures use the OS to power their own devices, much like what Windows and Linux is for computers.

Nobody would walk into a Best Buy and go to the computer section and say: “Man! They keep coming out with new Windows computers everyday!”  Yes, its a true statement, but nobody bats an eye when a new laptop comes out because of its operating system.  People should look at Android devices the same way.  Samsung is not only competing with Apple. It is competing with LG, HTC and Motorola, too.  They are essentially trying to sell a cellphone, not an operating system.

These companies aren’t even always backing Android anyway.  HTC and Samsung also push out Windows Phone devices and Samsung even is working on developing their own mobile OS, Tizen after their stopped development on another one, Bada.

In conclusion, please consider Android as the OS instead of the device itself.  As Google has stated before, there is no Google phone and should also be extended to mean there is no Android phone either.  There are only Android powered device.

The Official Majors’ House Show Episode 1: Twerkin’ at Cold Stones

Posted by :Marcus Summers On : 03/26/2013
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Category: Uncategorized

We’re back and hopefully better than ever! Check us out!

http://majortrain.podomatic.com/entry/2013-03-26T19_04_58-07_00

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