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Today, Sprint announced a new phone plan called "All-In": $80 a month (plus tax and surcharges) gets you unlimited talk, text, and high-speed data[FOOTNOTE GOES HERE]. As you can probably see in the title of this post, this new new plan is terrible, dumb, and you shouldn't support it, because it's complete bullshit that Sprint is even allowed to do this. In fact, it's not clear they're allowed to do it at all. (I honestly don't know how this doesn't run afoul of the FCC's new rules - Sprint will call it network management, but I call it discriminatory throttling of the most obvious kind.)
Google Drive is becoming quite a big product. With Google Photos now being a thing (and deeply integrated with Drive), the subjugation of Docs, Sheets, and Slides under the Drive banner, and continued and increasingly powerful integration with apps and services on Android, the once fairly simple cloud storage locker is now quite a flexible product.
Gone to wallet.google.com recently? Notice anything... missing? Like most mentions of "Wallet"? If so, you're not the only one! In fact, if you go to payments.google.com, the same page launches. And if you go to your settings on that page, there is a hilariously confusing mix of references to both Google Wallet and Google Payments. For example: there's a toggle box for accepting Google Wallet to receive commercial transactions. Yet there is also an option to set your Google Payments PIN, which is clearly the new name for your Wallet PIN, as well as an option to receive special offers from Google Payments (which were previously special offers from Wallet). The Wallet (or Payments!) site itself also doesn't have any Wallet branding anymore aside from areas where Wallet is explicitly referred to, like the Wallet balance, and there's even a full Google Payments support portal now.
While the calculator in Android M may not look that much different on first inspection, it's actually almost completely new. According to several responses from Googlers on the Android issue tracker, a host of bugs and problems with the old calculator app should be solved in Android M. And, and: new features! And before you say so, yep: it looks basically the same. But things have changed substantially (for the better) under the hood.
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