Google Leaked Its Own Phone Again
The Nexus 5 leaked straight through Google's own Play Store days before the official reveal, and it's got me thinking about how badly Google always seems to fumble its own launches.
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OS X Mavericks Is Free and My Mail Is Broken
Mavericks is free, which is weird for Apple, but mine broke Gmail in Mail.app. Also: Nokia announced a phone the size of a small tablet this week.
Mavericks Is Free and My App Store Just Sat There Spinning
Mavericks is free, which is great, except the Mac App Store spent all night Tuesday choking on the download. A night of vending-machine-style nudging to actually get it installed.
Mavericks Is Free and My Mail App Is Confused
Mavericks shipped free, which is the real story, but the overnight App Store crush and a Gmail unread-count bug in the new Mail app are what actually ate my morning.
Google Hit $1,000 a Share and I Have Complaints
Google stock closed above $1,000 a share this week and everyone's treating it like a milestone. It isn't — here's why the number itself is basically meaningless.
The $500k Apology Money Finally Showed Up
Rockstar's promised $500,000 GTA Online apology money finally landed this week, and it made the game's broken launch a little easier to swallow, though the servers are still a mess.
Twitter's Ticker Pick Isn't as Boring as It Sounds
Twitter confirmed it's listing on the NYSE under ticker TWTR instead of Nasdaq, and after what happened to Facebook's Nasdaq debut last year, that's not exactly a hard call to understand.
Bitcoin Survived Silk Road
The FBI took down Silk Road two weeks ago expecting it to tank bitcoin's price. It did the opposite, and that's more interesting than the bust itself.
Nine Days of GTA Online Eating My Character
Nine days into GTA Online's messy launch, my character vanished, got rebuilt, and today Rockstar handed out $500,000 in apology cash. A personal blow-by-blow of the worst week to be playing Los Santos online.
The Adobe Breach Made Me Finally Get a Password Manager
After Adobe's breach email landed in my inbox last Thursday, I spent Tuesday night changing a dozen reused passwords and finally caved on a password manager.
Adobe got popped and now I have to go change like six passwords
Adobe disclosed a breach hitting millions of accounts, and as a Creative Cloud subscriber I spent my morning changing passwords instead of doing actual work.
The Adobe Breach and the Subscription I Never Wanted
Adobe says hackers walked off with customer data and source code this week, and it's got me thinking about why I never switched to Creative Cloud in the first place.