Tell me about split-screen apps and quick replies in Android notifications.

Also, tell me more about this: http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/20/5229618/android-started-over-the-day-the-iphone-was-announced

Like I say in my conclusion, there’s no shame in having to catch up. We should stop treating that like some stigma. Learning from your competitors is a good thing.

It implies that they are the two greatest. I’m basing that on current influence. If Apple sneezes, how many parts and accessory suppliers catch a cold? If Google says jump, how many Android OEMs ask how high?

As a secondary metric, look at stock market price.

I’m not excluding Microsoft from the list, I’m saying that the top two are Apple and Google. A wider list would include Amazon, Facebook, and Samsung along with Microsoft.

This is a valid concern, which I share.

Yes, not being the designated coffee-making officer has freed up my time beautifully. Oh wait, those are flashbacks from a former job.

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Your payment should be waiting in your Venmo account. Good work, comrade!

It’s called because it is fat.

Eating brains doesn’t make you brainier.

I didn’t say that (trademark Benedict Evans). It was not intended as a scientific proof comment. I welcome the scientific data you can provide to document the material differences between human and other mammalian digestive systems. Maybe that will shed some light on the subject, which is kind of the goal here.

1. Eat less.
2. Feel hunger pangs.
3. Lose discipline.
4. Binge.
5. Look online for someone else to tell you you need to eat less.

We need to get away from this idea that (other) people are incorrigibly greedy and it’s all their fault. It’s all their actions, sure, but the causation of those actions is a complex physiological interaction, and tweaking the proportion of inputs makes a difference.

I disagree. The reason we need to have a conversation about this is, if you’ll pardon my bluntness, precisely the complacently uninformed attitude you express. Sugar is physiologically addictive. Fat keeps us feeling sated for longer. How are those things not worth discussing?

This is important, because doctors have been parroting this advice to their patients. And people have struggled for decades with their weight, unaware that eating the "good" starches and carbs is what keeps them both hungry and overweight. I’ve been one of those people, so I know how effective a macronutrient adjustment can be. The mainstream advice needs to be corrected.

Please do give that a try. If anything, the popularity of punk would incite people to be more active (i.e. dance and thrash around), so it’s probably a less clear-cut relationship.

Yes, it’s never simple and yes, correlation isn’t necessarily causation, but there’s very good reason to believe that carbs are the "fattening" macronutrient. Carbohydrates are sugars, the processing of sugar raises the level of insulin in the blood, insulin catalyses the body’s fat-storing mechanisms, and tada. What do we feed livestock when we want to fatten them up?

A) That sounds like a very nice way of doing it, provided she was going to say "yes" all along.

but

B) I don’t think the proposer should schmooze the proposed before proposing. Don’t turn proposal day into some showcase of amazingly brilliant experiences you’ll never have together again.

The most important thing, in my opinion, is to do it in circumstances where "no" would feel like a valid option / answer. Don’t pressure her into it by creating some magical setpiece or asking her in public. Be the human that you propose to be for the rest of your life together (also think about what that means!).

The TH900s cost twice as much, soooo…

I don’t see why the existence of other good products on the market should the diminish the goodness of any individual one. Are the NightHawks overpriced? Not in my opinion. I think they’re lovely to look at, to hold, to wear, and to listen to. They’re one of the best pairs of headphones I’d consider if I were to buy headphones as a gift.

And as to the peasant’s TH900, there’s only one choice: the TH-X00s.

The HD800 S, by the way, is well worth a listen. I think it rectifies the treble scares of the original and sounds kinda, sorta outstanding because of it.

Soundstage is very expansive. If by depth you mean whether things sound far out in front or behind, I wouldn’t say it has a lot of depth, but it has great width.

Yeah, sorry to disappoint, I made do with an Oppo HA-2 and a DacMagic XS. Not that I consider either of those particularly shabby sources. I also used a number of phones and laptops, as I do with all my reviews.

The NightHawks are very easy to drive, whatever the source.

I haven’t heard the X1s, but the Fidelio X2s are indeed wonderful.

No disputing the quality of Grado’s range, but their sound signature is almost the reverse of the NightHawks, with an emphasis on the high end. Depends on what you value more. And I must also say, as iconic as the Grado design might be, it’s kinda flimsy.

That’s my oversight and I apologise. I’ve corrected it now. I intended to write AT&T, but there was a systemic failure somewhere between my brain and keyboard. I’m aware the AT&T model was the outlier, though it was still worth acknowledging its lateness given how big a carrier that is in the US.

The curse of a polished and mature platform is the accusation that it’s lost its innovative edge. There’s no such thing as infinite growth and there’s no way to sustain the leaps-and-bounds improvements of the past past a certain point of refinement. I choose to be grateful to have two excellent mobile platforms, upon which many (Microsoft included) are building the next stage in evolution and improvement.

Also, I kinda love the denser notifications, you can get lost in their almost infinite nestling. (That could get annoying on a daily basis, but it sure is fun to play around with right now)

Did you see Google’s pre-show theatrics at I/O? That was very Samsung too.