We swap phones out
About every two years. There’s an Apple faction, and an Android faction. Ordinarily the Apple faction is sales and other dumbasses, with a few power users; the Android folks are mostly engineers.
I’m clearly in the Android camp, predominantly because of the apps and the fact that Jobs never touched it. I dislike the whole cloyingly self righteous fanbois bullshit, and frankly, can do more with my phone than I need, so it’s plenty good for me.
And when the damned phone updates it makes me nuts for a month while I try to get it back to the SETTINGS I WANTED AND HAD PERFECT BEFORE YOU UPDATED THEM.
Lollipop my ass.
Every so often they update the browser on my tablet. There was a three-month period where I could not look at complex web sites (like Ace of Spades HQ or Zero Hedge) for more than about thirty seconds before the browser would crash to the desktop. Every so often they change how the bookmarks work, and there are almost no configuration options.
This despite the fact that I’ve changed every update option to manual. Believe me, I feel your pain.
And they think tablets will make PCs obsolete. Bah.
FWIW I have an engineer friend who completely swallowed the Apple Kool-Aid years ago. I pray for him.
Lemme ask you guys, then, about something I was told recently. (By someone who works for Verizon in government sales, of all things. The kind of government sales where she can’t talk about what she does exactly.) She says that in terms of security all Android phones are a bad idea and that Apple is the only way to go. As she put it the Android platform is so much more vulnerable to everything that by using an Android you’re putting your business in the street at the very least. I pretty much believe if you do anything on a cell phone the govt and advertisers already knows about it so what’s the difference?
i’d love more information.
jenny
Tinfoil hats, the latest fashion statement.
Unless they have “special” phones, it is my understanding that apples security holes are at least as big as android. Claims to the contrary seem to be primarily fanbois bs. Otoh, why do anything sensitive on a phone?
Like being online, I would always assume cell phone use is not secure.
But that’s just paranoid ol’ me. However, as has been pointed out in the past, sometimes that’s just good thinking. :D
Jenny
Just because you think every one is out to get you does not mean you are paranoid.
The only secure phone is a blackberry. Course this was done from an Ndroid phone.
Not sure who is watching me but I’m not sure I care.
As for security, I do find it disconcerting to find my phonebook contents become suggestions for google plus or “hangouts” and on my gmail contacts on other Computers.
There are ‘secure’ iPhones and Android phones. But they are a PITA… You have an additional ‘device’ that you carry to actually make it work. Just like with the secure Blackberry.