Debunking some FUDs here On Friday, March 4, 2011 2:35:49 PM UTC+5:30, Karsten Silz wrote: > > This is coming > from a company that knows so much more about you than Big Brother ever > did - all your phone calls, emails, contacts, friends, appointments, > tasks,
mobile me does the same thing ( email, contacts, calendar, photos, and files ) for a fee. How is that different? > text messages, No, google does not get to see the phone's text messages. > documents, pictures, same with mobileme > videos, web searches, Same with any search engine > the > places you've been, Only if you enable latitude and enable location for google search Apple does the same http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/06/apple-location-privacy-iphone-ipad.html everything you type into your browser What? How? Complete FUD . If so unsure, use a different browser. > and that you > buy. What? The apps you buy yes, The same with iTunes. > And that company thinks privacy is for people who have something > to hide and that users expect Google to tell them what to do next > (Schmidt quotes). After Schmidt was ousted and Sergey Brin > "wozniaked", it really is now down to one man at Google - Larry Page. > Who's the Big Brother again? > > And then Vic said this (http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100520/ > qotd-but-were-just-fine-with-the-two-men-one-company-one-search-engine- > model/<http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100520/qotd-but-were-just-fine-with-the-two-men-one-company-one-search-engine-model/>): > > > > “If we did not act, we faced a draconian future. Where one man, one > company, one carrier was the future.” > > This smells like history rewriting to me: Google bought Android in > 2005, and I doubt they knew about the iPhone then. With Android, > Google has been a "fast follower" for the most part, copying the > leading smartphone. Initially, that was the Blackberry (http:// > gizmodo.com/?_escaped_fragment_=334909/google-android-prototype-in-the- > wild), then the iPhone (and yes, Google has their own share of > innovations in Android, like the speech recognition). Hands up for > all those who believe that Google did Android to save humanity and not > to make more money in the end! Yeah, I didn't think so either. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
