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Re:OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe on Thursday July 16, 2026 @08:14AM (#48933420)
Before getting one, make sure you can have Play Store and Wallet on it, if that matters for you.
Re:Soft launch of open-source code platform for government on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @10:22AM (#47948885)
gov.uk have been pretty big on open source https://github.com/alphagov
Some of them (e.g. Netflix and Youtube) have official apps for Meta Quest devices, so there might be other reasons.

For Youtube it kind of makes more sense, as they have 360 and 180 content on there and VR headsets are probably best devices to consume it on.

But even with Netflix, having watched some TV show for about hour or so was surprisingly not so bad experience at all on Meta Quest 3.

Re:Tesla FSD Timeline on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @07:07AM (#38626185)
Maybe because people pay $$ for that promise.
You can actually use it with any game when plugged over USB. There's also a hack which allows to use it wirelessly outside of Stadia https://github.com/helloparthshah/StadiaWireless
Re:Opera moves to WebKit on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @03:22AM (#5211988)
Now it's time for IE to switch to WebKit as well. Also, they should make it available for all versions of Windows.
Re:The Pirate Bay - 9 years and still bloody runnin on Saturday September 15, 2012 @12:08PM (#4526378)
At least in some countries... In the UK we have: http://cl.ly/image/3m2C40432q0u
Re:Microsoft Will Soon Start Charging For Its Bing Search API on Thursday April 12, 2012 @06:42PM (#3834510)
Requiring valid credit card may not by enough - it's still possible to walk around it by generating lots of virtual credit cards, even on the fly.
It may by easy to wrap it with PhoneGap.