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great apps to choose from but then again it's actually really good for consumers because obviously competition baguettes better products so the more competition that's out there and the better those apps are the better it is for us those people downloading the apps but I think the real problem is is the overabundance of apps and the lack of good search results in app stores so in the Play Store on the app store for Apple like all of the different manufacturers or os's have this problem of search you can't find good apps for example if you look up paper this is a big thing going on right now on iOS if you look at paper you may not find 53's paper anymore because facebook now has facebook paper and there's some weird search algorithms that go into that so I think in some ways it's harder to find the little guy unless it is viral and everyone's talking about it so in that way I think that that's the one thing that is the detriment of overabundance of apps like lots of different apps out there obviously really good for consumers because of the competition but maybe not so great for the little guy who has a harder time getting found in search results in different app stores Antonio cool Jack asks hey Ashley do you agree with what the Microsoft investors are saying about killing off the Xbox thanks no I I think it would be a terrible idea for Microsoft to kill off the xbox now the thing is is if you look at it from a financial perspective Microsoft has never actually been profitable on their consoles so the ex the original xbox they were just getting off the ground they had a lot of manufacturing costs with the xbox 360 it cost them billions of dollars the red ring of death scandal cost them a lot of money so to an investor it might actually seemed like a good idea to spin off the Xbox but the problem with that is a we wouldn't really know if Microsoft would sort of spin the company off but still own it or if they would completely sell the company and what if somebody like EA body you don't want an origin box that's a terrible idea we all know how the SimCity launch went battlefield 4 hopefully we're not going to see the same thing with titanfall but at the end of the day I think these two investors are really into enterprise and I think that you've heard the phrase never change a winner or if it ain't broke don't fix it and I think that that's where they feel the money is coming from with Microsoft but at the end of the day I think it's a really good thing that Microsoft is sort of branching out into products and services you know I don't know that Bing should be around I think they may be they should kill off Bing but at the end of the day I definitely don't think Microsoft should kill off the xbox and I think a lot of gamers agree with me because you know the xbox one's pretty great Ryan bulli asks hey Ashley why do you guys and many other tech reviewers default to AT&T when reviewing unlocked devices Thanks this is actually sort of a not choice that we have we actually get them from PR representatives who represent those manufacturers or the manufacturers themselves their PR departments will send us phones and the reason why usually it defaults to AT&T is because it has the largest coverage network with a device that can easily have it sim cards swapped in and out for different reviewers so we do send devices back once we're done reviewing them and then they go on to the next reviewer so the easiest way to do that and to be able to swap out your sim cards is by using something like an 80 or an internationally unlock device emits their bands are the most widely available incompatible bands on the planet so that's why they use those those phones at beam are 234 asks hey Ashley did you think android gets facebook paper app soon or it doesn't get it at all okay first of all stop yelling this is the internet you don't have to yell I saw yeah I think facebook paper if you didn't know is it's actually developed by a very small group of people within Facebook who work on sort of experimental projects so if you haven't read that that's actually how facebook paper kind of came about and I think it's a catch-22 with Facebook page because a lot of people really like it because it's very visual and it has no ads which is great but the problem is is that if everybody uses facebook paper and nobody uses the official app they're going to have to put ads in to facebook paper then people aren't going to like that on top of that I think that they're going to have to see some form of major adoption on iOS it's sort of a test bed now keep in mind it's not on iOS everywhere in the world it's just here so a lot of countries don't have access to facebook paper even if they have an iOS device so it's a very very small percentage of iOS users that are served using and able to try out facebook paper so don't feel too bad i mean i don't think android is being completely left out in the cold and i do have a feeling that if this is very popular and honestly I think it'll catch on a lot better than Facebook home so hopefully this will be a thing that also comes to android fairly soon I would say within the next six months if we're lucky like I said it's a really small team of people developing facebook paper but they're still making amazing things and if you're thinking about getting into app development or some other facet of the business of Technology you should check out Linda calm you can learn at Linda calm it's an online learning company with more than 77,000 video tutorials that teach things like software creative and business membership starts at just 25 dollars a month and you get 24 7 access to high-quality video courses taught by expert instructors with actual real-world experience a videos range from bite size tutorials all the way to comprehensive courses in a variety of subjects including app development so you can finally code that really cool app you always wanted to make we have a special offer if you 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