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New Facebook-Branded Android Coming?
Earthquake Retrofit writes "The Register reports that 'Facebook has sent out invitations to an event at its Menlo Park headquarters next week that many believe will see the launch of a new, Facebook-branded smartphone...' I have lately become disillusioned with Google having so much power over my phone and the usual privacy concerns, so this announcement means I now have a choice. Oh, wait..."
I don't understand these 'creepy Google privacy concerns'. Is it astoundingly computer-illiterate people buying into MS's 'scroogled' ads? Is it people just not understanding the way phones, apps, software, operating systems, and the internet as a whole work? If you know how to run and manage your devices, Android is an excellent operating system with almost no privacy concerns to speak of.
If you're Jane Dipshit who just buys it from the AT&T(Worst.Company.Ever.) store and powers it up, of course it's full of bloatware and invasive shit. This is what I (less than) affectionately call the 'Mac Syndrome'. "I have a Mac, and it just does what I want it right away. I shouldn't have to know how this computer stuff works, durrrrrr.... OMG Google is spying! The competitors said so!" *drools on self*
If you want to use a computer, you should be required to at least understand in a broad sense how a computer works. What is a hard drive, what is RAM, what is a network, etc. Mac Syndrome is much like driving a Ferrari without knowing what the wheels do. I can only imagine how many Macfools are flipping their shit without any more optical media.
If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits
Is this greenish ick on the sole of my shoe the remnant of your misplaced brain?
That is the fucking stupidest comment I've read all week.
You are obviously not a parent, and you evidently do not read the news.
(And yes, kids get *kidnapped* all the time.)
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.