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.

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