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Comment Google Gears (Score 1) 188

They removed Gears from this release. I have an app that has a full offline mode and relies on Gears; as a band-aid fix yesterday I had to downgrade a user to Chrome 11 that had automatically updated. I know, I need to get with the times and port my code to HTML 5. Even more so, as Gears only supports Firefox up to 3.6, and IE up to 8.

Comment Re:Didn't think I'd champion Silverlight... (Score 1) 162

Hulu's service detects bandwidth and will auto-adjust the video quality while a video is playing. I've seen it go from 720p to 288p, then to 480p, as the poor connection I was on fluctuated. It was a seamless experience. The absence of Silverlight is the exact reason I opened this story. Unfortunately, I don't have the option to use Silverlight on my devices. I'd be a Netflix subscriber if I could. I've seen plenty of comments above (especially the per movie rental cost) that are good reasons to not sign up for this, but not using Silverlight is definitely not one of them, in my opinion.

Comment Re:Apple getting desperate? (Score 1) 574

You just helped me realize, I think it's funny that someone creates an app for an online publication, when a website would do just as well. The web is a fine publishing platform. I've yet to get caught up in the whole 'app' fad, though. The most used apps on my phone are the ones it came with (mail, calendar, web, navigation, etc).

Comment Re:Maybe (Score 1) 416

I think some of those phones still on 1.6 don't have the hardware features to support 2.0; navigation is a good example. Apps that rely on those hardware features would be useless anyways. Maybe not the only reason, but it is one as far as I know.

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