月份: 2021 年 8 月

Video game streaming should be as widely available and consistent as movie streaming — but it isn’t.

Cloud gaming is the future and will replace consoles. At least that’s what services like Google Stadia want us to believe. Honestly, the idea of getting top-tier games without the need to purchase an expensive piece of hardware that can break and needs to be upgraded every few years sounds great. However, game streaming services don’t matter if gigabit internet is required to play them.

Of course, Stadia isn’t the only option. There’s also Amazon’s Luna, NVIDIA GeForce Now, and Xbox’s xCloud, but the commonality of these services is the desire to give people the ability to play console-quality games without the need to own a console. Game streaming also opens up the ability to play games on a variety of devices. Whether that’s on a phone or an excellent Chromebok, you aren’t tethered to your living room anymore.

I used to love playing video games, and I still do. I just don’t h…

The Galaxy Note wasn’t just about the S Pen.

The Galaxy Z Fold 3 is here, and for a lot of people, it might turn out to be the best Android phone. But for a substantial portion of the Android crowd, the Galaxy Fold is also a reminder of how disappointed they are with one important detail.

You see, Samsung decided the Galaxy Note line is done. Kaput. Fin. The company hasn’t come right out and said it, but the Galaxy S Ultra line and the Galaxy Fold are the essentially spiritual successors to the Note line — and things just aren’t quite the same.

Right up front — I’m not a Galaxy Note die-hard. It’s my favorite Samsung model throughout the years, but only because I really love using the S Pen. It’s just not the phone I would carry around all day, every day, so I didn’t. If you’re wondering what my ideal phone would be, well, that would have to be the LG V10 running the Pixel version of Android 11. But such an animal only exists in my mind. Oh well.

You might think that includin…