I have been dogfooding the pixel for a few weeks and I have to say it's an amazing device. I have also had other chromebooks and the pixel really makes them feel like cheap toys. I use it for writing code only via ssh, but it works really well for that and the screen is just breathtaking. I haven't really experimented too much with any web IDEs out there, but hopefully that is an area where we'll see growth very soon. I definitely agree that the price tag is pretty tough for a chrome device, and I'm not sure whether I'd buy one myself, but using this thing is absolute pleasure and I find myself reaching for it much more often than my retina mac book pro.

Google engineers are not actually allowed to write code locally on those laptops. The macbooks are only used when hanging out around campus to view email and ssh into workstations (linux desktops) where actual work is done. That same thing can be done from chromebooks.

Really sounds to me like you mostly dislike Java. Personally, I can't stand objective-C and very much prefer Java and developing on Android. Personal preferences, man.

Nope, I don't dislike Java. I was the project lead of a "TV-Browser", an Java Swing GUI that is used by over 100.000 Users. You can't do that if you hate Java ;).

A broken GUI editor can't be a personal preference ;).

Fun fact: Mark Zuckerberg's sister, Arielle Zuckerberg, works for Wildfire and so now she works for Google. Talk about sibling rivalry.

From her Facebook:

I'm in Israel on Birthright and I just found out that I'm now a Google employee. Not gonna lie... This feels pretty awkward, but I also feel very proud to be a part of the Wildfire team on this exciting day for Alain and Victoria.

She has 10,500 subscribers. I'm sort of fascinated by that- I wonder how much she is worth to Wildfire just by virtue of who she is?

A huge amount. Same reason his sister spun off a career as a Facebook consultant.

Very cool that you got this to work in iOS, but you know what else is special? Android widgets.

This one is really just ridiculous. Can't wait for the next nexus phone to be blocked because Android has lists... I can't believe this went through. I had a crappy touchscreen LG phone that had lists like this way before the iphone was released.

True, but even so, it's good to see Google patenting crazy things like this to protect themselves a little more against the "patent everything" Apple machine.

Look at the scale on your two pictures.