Honestly, this one thread of exchanges justified the whole existence of social media: http://t.co/dOPOKe1b

The Xbox One hears all, sees all, and steals Google's dreams | iMore.com

Google is a company with many stated ambitions. They want to catalog the world's information. They want to bring you info before you know you need it. They want to build the Star Trek computer. That kind of omniscient service requires an omnipresent awareness. Google's presence is felt just about everywhere. Google is the dominant search engine on desktops and in mobile. Google builds the operating system that powers an increasingly percentage of smartphones. Google offers an email service and a social networking service and instant messaging so much more. Google has fingers in every pot they can reach, though how far they've successfully plunged said fingers varies. When it comes to the living room, however, where Google's fingertips have just barely grazed the surface of the stock, Microsoft is ladling out the soup like it's their job. And with the newly-announced Xbox One that ladle is getting even bigger. ...