Yep, had 3 devices (double shame on me?). Seems to have one of the least graceful product depredations paths of any mainstream phone manufacturer I'm aware of.

Looks nice, seems to be some good tracks.

Hypem's downfall (in my opinion) was the point where the frontpage started being bombarded with Kanye West songs. Songs like that don't need to be 'discovered', as they're already jammed into our ears at every opportunity mainstream media has. Hopefully 2U can keep a good balance.

Well done nwienert, great launch.

Thanks for linking back.

If your loved one isn't considerate enough to use Ultimate Gift Lists: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4865223

Haha, us hustler's work is never through. Like the different approach.

Good to hear. A favorite of mine this year is Arduino kits. Kinda hoping someone might give me one too!

I've got to agree with you an many others in the comments. The thing that "doesn't sit right" is that Google is looking at alternative ways to benefit their company while benefiting the community. There's always going to be a risk of monopoly. In Australia, the fiber roll-out is government owned and funded, replacing a former government telco monopoly with a current government telco monopoly. If the price is right and there's still competition, I think we should be vigilant but happy.

I really dislike "<Over-reaching statement>, here's why" headlines. Attending to the actual content of this article, I summarize it to be "I think Google+ will be big because universities are telling their students to use it".

I don't think that's the way the world works, but apparently we won't have to wait to long to find out.

I'm not against Google+ at all, I'm against attention grabbing headlines. I dislike myself a little for upping the comment count.

Not to down play the consumer experience issue, but I couldn't help but chuckle a bit when the author spoke about the issues on NYE.

"Consumers who were used to easy clicking missed the notice and became (reasonably) upset when the bill arrived."

I wonder how many drinks those consumers has consumed when they were ordering their ride home.

Looks fun, but $329 isn't throw-away money. Given that I don't need another computer, the price just isn't cheap enough to say "yeh, why not:.

You are likely not the target

Who is? (honest question). I don't get the target from the page.

I see two main targets: Grandmas (sorry to stereotype the tech savvy grandmas out there) or rather tech savvy sons of grandmas which want something that just works for their mothers and that automatically backs things up for them. And enterprises who want to kick Microsoft prices in the nuts.

I see the Grandma use case, but it's so niche I can't see that being viable. As for enterprise, you'd have to have a pretty "progressive" company... and one that would be very sure that you'll never need a desktop app. Again, I would think very small numbers.

I realise Chrome OS is somewhat still a market experiment, but I think it would've gone a lot further at a better price point. For ~$200 I would put one in my living room for checking the web & controlling my home web apps. I see that as the perfect way to get people familiar with it (thinking of it more like a tablet, a limited utility), then once NaCl goes mainstream, you have a who market who's ready to start replacing their other PCs.

I can tell you that a huge international bank (as far as "progressive" as you can get) went Google Apps and ditched Office, so your thinking might be a bit off.

Why wouldn't they get an ipad with icloud? For $20 more you can get a referb ipad2 from apple.com This has a battery, is portable, big screen, etc