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this episode of android weekly is brought to you by gamefly welcome back to android weekly my name is Jason this past week saw a lot of people distressed over the rumored news that Google+ could be dying even though Google's PR rep vehemently denied it as did Google+ community manager you had people like Danny Sullivan of search engine land calm making the poignant observation that if Google+ is dining Google minus is going to be awesome yes that's right apparently according to TechCrunch in the wake of vic and otras departure from google he was the product visionary behind Google+ Google is then going to scale back the resources on Google+ substantially The Wall Street Journal corroborates part of the story at least reporting that the Google+ team has been relocated within the Google campus from its previous central position teams that are deemed important inside Google are placed closer to the office of the CEO so as to make the move a signal of demotion of sorts then again teams move around the campus all the time said the source of TechCrunch so let's unpack that just a little bit and only talk about what we know and what we can infer from what we know we know that conductor is gone but we don't know why we know his replacement is David bez burry the current vp of engineering at Google Plus who is a very smart guy at a top Google executive but not known as a product guy lending further credence that they're going to scale back on google+ but let's talk about Google's primary business model it is search search search search that's how they make billions of dollars every quarter and the reason they created google plus and put so much time resources in it was to create those social signals that data that intimate details about you and me there is no way that Google+ is going to die or they're going to let it die it may morph and change into a way that allows them to capitalize on those social signals but Google+ will be with us for a long long time in some form or another all right moving on to news about the 1+1 so after plenty of teasing and heavy marketing the 1+1 was officially unveiled in Beijing we now know that the one plus one is officially a 5.5 inch display at 1080p with a Snapdragon 801 and Adreno 330 it has three gigs of ram at 13 megapixel camera and it has a 3100 milliamp hour battery running cyanogenmod 11 specifically customized for this phone I have told you guys before that I think that Chinese manufacturers are taking over I think opa1 is just the beginning this is really exciting this phone has flagship power and yet it is cheaper than the nexus 5 holy crap but if you're not in a position right now to buy that seemingly fantastic phone you were always in a position to play affordable games you see when you become a gamefly member you can rent any of their eight thousand new and classic titles they have to choose from across all consoles and handhelds rent up to four games at a time and keep them for as long as you like and for those of you who want to graduate and play with the big boys gamefly members can play hundreds of pc games with unlimited pc play yeah so all you hundreds of people who friended me on battlefield you have no excuse when I home you you can all get a 30 day free trial if you goto gamefly.com /a thority moving on to nexus 8 rumors so didja x has surfaced a rumor that HTC won't be manufacturing that 8.9 inch tablet display that was rumored a couple months ago but an 8-inch tablet there by building the aptly named nexus 8 digit I'm sources also claim that Google is being less aggressive with its tablet strategy this time around as the nexus tablet line has already served its primary purpose boosting androids tablet market penetration what's interesting about the reports wording is that digit I'm sources indicate the nexus 8 will be the company's third gen smaller tablet meaning that we may not see a third generation Nexus 7 but we should be cautious and remember that digit I'm doesn't have a perfect track record when it comes to these rumors so please take it with a grain of salt thanks for watching a droid army my name is Jace last week I asked you all a tshirt question I asked you to help out William who asked the question as to how to speed up his slow phone and I asked you to give links to back up your instructions and give a clear easy step-by-step guide not everyone followed those instructions but I found someone who did a great job and they did it pretty fast and his name was Benny mega dish Benny you win the t-shirt buddy so Benny you can contact me via a google plus hangout and private hangout and give me your address and your t-shirt size but for the rest of you who are still asking me questions on google+ hangouts like a private messages there's just too many of you and it's not public so if I answer you no one else can benefit from the answer so the things i do monitor are the google google comments and twitter but other stuff i won't respond to you so please don't be offended if i don't respond to you i'm gonna ignore it okay so don't forget about my brother's an Android Josh Joe in the tech ninja Kevin and love has joined us now he's doing a great job with his reviews and the sound guys so we've started a new channel the sound guys you want to subscribe to the sound guys they're doing great stuff I got great questions about Bluetooth headsets i'm looking forward to their content see you next week on android weekly