No doubt. I just find Mr. Zuckerberg's wording a bit odd. Clearly they fear that someone might blame them someday if they fail to take action. Instead of saying "Look, we have a problem and we're working on it" he goes "Look FB is great, we help people!"
Of course, this is typical PR speak but it leaves a sour taste when it comes to such a serious topic, imho.
I'm also curious if a widespread "gaming tradition" has positive effects on other areas of life. Games tend to require critical thinking, creativity and most importantly create interesting social situations.
> Can we anticipate that we have so many apps installed on our phone and keep looking for the one we need to control every time?
Total tangent, but I've come to depend on the Android app Conjure[1], which acts kind of like Mac's Spotlight search for apps. You can type in a full app name, or show all apps that contain the letters you type in in that order, even if you skip letters (e.g. searching for "cre" would bring up ChRomE").
How is more choice and innovation a bad thing? What actual cross-system limitations are you worried about?
I switch from iOS to Android seamlessly, as my digital life is platform agnostic. I am more invested in Google's ecosystem in terms of where my data lives, but until they remove the ability to export/sync that data (e.g. I can download all Drive files at once, and simultaneously convert them to Office or PDF format), I don't feel all that "walled".
It's not more choice, as the only outcome is choosing which garden you are slowly walled into. Gaining market share is the desired outcome only as the shareholders need to see growth.
The innovation stops when you are captive. We all learned this in the 90's with Microsoft. People are quite young or have a short memory I'm sure.
I have no problem with limitations. I have a problem investing time and money in something that cannot be used under my terms. The computer is my minion, not my taskmaster not a convenient pipe to shove content down my throat (I already have a television thank you).
It's not a harbinger, it's a remnant. Netflix can keep imposing device limitations, but those devices are converging in capabilities and the transition between them is becoming more fluid.
It's in the best interest of companies like Netflix – or a disruptor – to design a service/business model that is in-line w/ the reality of device usage, not to try to change it.
> those devices are converging in capabilities and the transition between them is becoming more fluid.
Transition between authorized/trusted devices is fluid. A concept that did not exist in the recent past (or if it existed, existed only in very obscure niches, like custom test-taking software used in only a few niches of education). That is the point I am making.
You can definitely merge in Google Spreadsheets, is this a ChromeOS-specific limitation you're referencing? There are, of course, plenty of other limitations of the Drive suite.
It's a limitation of Google Documents. You can try it yourself. Create a Google Document, insert a table (Insert > Table) and, er, that's it. If you want to merge table cells, you're out of luck. There's no function that will allow you.
