It doesn't allow any messages to be sent from the tablet number: it prompts one to associate the app w/ an existing Verizon phone number. Which is bizarre, since they've provided a non voice phone number to the tablet for it to use cellular data.
In iMessage, each Window is unique to a conversation. If I'm conversing w/ 2 people, only the 3 of us will be in the conversation. If they add someone else, it will be a different message thread, and I'll know that more people have been brought in
Correction: some games wanted to use my cellular data, not the location. Which there's no compelling reason for them to have. They can update my scores when I'm near a trusted WiFi
Snowflake can't handle the fact that the entire Left is in meltdown and has still not gotten over Trump's victory, and so is engaging in projection. Snowflakes are mainly on the Left - kids who've graduated w/o being taught how to pick their POVs and debate them!
All the Right. Not just your 'alt.right snowflakes', but even establishment Republicans know Zuckerberg's bias towards the Left, and are not likely to support him even against Trump. Ideally, they'd like someone like Ben Sass or Jeff Flake to run against him, but given the way Trump mopped the floor w/ 16 other GOP candidates last year, I doubt that anyone will dare run against him
There won't be any primary on the (R) side - Republicans - even Never Trumpers - will be too scared to run. Last year too, they were scared of him when they were already in the race, and only hit out at him when it was clear that his nomination was inevitable.
Even on the (D) side, they will have trouble finding candidates - aside from the Resistance people. Problems is that mainstream Dems will have the same trouble that the Republicans had against Bill Clinton in 1996 - running against a president when the economy is doing well. And the fringe leftists always do better in street mobs than they do in elections, which is why Bernie - despite being vindicated after Hilary's defeat - couldn't win a single Dem primary, be it DNC chair or any of the congressional elections in MT, KS, GA or SC. They'll probably put Pocahontas or Kamala Harris, and she'll go down in flames, probably losing every battleground state that Hilary won.
The world will change whether people who enjoy driving like it or not. Just like nobody today insists on riding in an assisted elevator those people will have to adapt. Over time the pressures of technology will make human driven cars more expensive to own because of the higher insurance rates, having to add more mechanical steering components etc. Even just individual vehicle ownership may become very expensive because car sharing services will likely become extremely prevalent and efficient. Owning a vehicle outright will make very little economic sense.
There will always be a market for manually operated cars but those cars are likely going to get relegated to race tracks and that market will probably be as big as the market for chariots today. And yes, chariots are still a thing and there is a chariot racing track not far from my place. And it's being used daily. But needless to say the people who go there don't ride chariots to the office in the morning.
The one time I drove a Saturn Electric car several years ago, it was a strange feeling. After starting the car, there was no sound, and while the car moved smoothly, it hardly felt like I was driving. That sort of experience takes a lot of getting used to. For similar reasons, people will initially feel strange sitting in a car - particularly alone - w/ no driver.
I agree w/ you w/ some of the privacy issues, but some apps do have some big positives about them. Although I have a navigation unit in my car, the maps on a smartphone are generally up to date. If you receive a check, it's a great convenience to scan it both sides and use the banking app to deposit it. If you are out of town, it's handy to have Yelp! tell you the nearby restaurants of your choice. One of the biggest things about smartphones is the way they put the camera to use, and how handy it is - like on the occasions I was in an accident, how I could instantly take pictures of the damages to both cars for the insurance.
I don't, however, as a rule, put my real identity on Twitter, FaceBook et al. In fact, anything that requires a lot of typing - I do that on my laptop. It's a lot more fluent than using 2 thumbs on an on-screen keyboard w/ tiny keys.
Sounds like a laptop would have done the job for you just great. And if you don't like Microsoft, a Macbook or Chromebook would have done exactly what you're describing.
Honestly, the biggest reasons to have smartphones is for things like video calling, texting and other apps. If one is not into them, one could use those legacy phones like those flip phones. Texting was something I only started doing after I got my first smart phone - a Nokia Lumia 520. Prior to that, I'd rarely text, since hitting a numeric keypad to type a message was a pain. But the Windows Phone 8 interface - particularly their keyboard - was a delight to use.
Those are fine - was referring to Google's Message+. I have a Verizon Ellipsis that comes w/ that, yet I can't use it w/ the cellular number that comes w/ that tablet.
Not to the scale it has since Europe became a free for all, you little Muzzie cock sucker! Where public signs have to be posted telling people not to grope or rape women, or where flyers are distributed on the 'right way' to have sex.
What phone do you have - an Android? I'm guessing yes, given that you rarely use Google Play. In which case, how is Google search app not installed - it's almost a part of the OS.
I've seen a few. Best reason to have WhatsApp is if you know people who use phones different from yours - be it iPhones, Androids, Windows Phones. Especially if one has the third, it's great to have WhatsApp: it's a common platform for messages, photos, videos and video calling. Until recently, one couldn't do a video call b/w an iPhone and an Android, or a Windows Phone and any of the others. WhatsApp changed it all.
It's on iPod Touch? How does that work - doesn't it need a phone number? I can understand FaceTime, which works from email IDs as well, but this?
Which is why I don't get why they include messaging apps on tablets, when those apps can't use the cellular phone# of the tablets, as opposed to phones within the plan
iMessage can be used to send text messages to anyone. It's only if one wants to include photos or videos that it gets restrictive. Reason I use WhatsApp - it works across phone platforms and different family members have different phones.
I've never had a device that came w/ FaceBook: if I wanted it, it had to be downloaded separately. Which is different for Google apps on an Android, where you get most of them whether you want them or not. Most ridiculous: having messenger included on my Android tablet even though I can't use the phone number on that tablet to send messages: I'd have to associate it w/ one of the phones.
The app can report your GPS location, phone number, and other informatics back to the app developer and their advertising partners.
Why would a consumer want that?
There are times that they are nice to have. Like when I take pictures and send them to family, it's nice to include the location of where I took it, so that if interested, they can check out on a map. Some apps, like Costco, tell me where the nearest store is if I happen to be out of town and allow them to access my location
But there are a lot of apps that have no business knowing my location, such as all the games I found it bizarre when Monopoly requested access to my location & pictures: why? The only thing I gave it was access to my music list, so that it could play my songs in the background while I play. Otherwise I check whether any app has any reason to know my location, and if it doesn't, it doesn't get it.
I just use my laptop or tablet as a TV: use the Android toys to watch YouTube, including live programming there. Don't have a big screen and haven't since 2008
Like AC, I too don't have a personal Facebook account. (I do have a couple of anonymous FB accounts which nobody knows about), so I don't get invitations that way. Any invitation is by word of mouth, text or WhatsApp.
Facebook (81 percent), YouTube (71 percent), Facebook Messenger (68 percent), Google Search (61 percent), Google Maps (57 percent), Instagram (50 percent), Snapchat (50 percent), Google Play (47 percent), Gmail (44 percent), and Pandora (41 percent)
I have 5 devices (2 iOS, 2 Androids, 1 Windows 10 Mobile), and here are the breakdowns of what I have on each:
Facebook: NONE
YouTube: Both the Androids - they come pre-installed. But didn't bother installing them on the iPhone/iPad
Facebook Messenger: NONE
Google Search: there on my Androids, but not on iOS/Windows - I just use the defaults. On iOS, I made it DuckDuckGo, which is not an option on Androids. On Windows, I just use Bing
Google Maps: Here again, I use the defaults - Google Maps on the Androids, Apple Maps on the iOS and Bing Maps + Waze on the Windows Phone
Instagram: None. One of my games on the iPad has me upload scenes on Instagram, and for that, I just use the browser
Snapchat: None. Never saw a reason to use it, which would be family members using it.
Google Play: Again, why is this listed, when it's the default way to get one's apps?
Gmail: Like the above, there on my Androids, not on my other devices
Pandora: None. I download songs from YouTube on my laptop, copy them to the SD card of the devices that have them, and play them there. For a lot of them, I made them into MP3s which I then put into my iPod, and play it in the car.
Some apps that I do use b/w my devices - WhatsApp, FaceTime, Costco, OneDrive, LastPass, various credit card, bank & other financial apps (Am Ex, Citi, et al), PayPal, Sirius XM and Vonage. Also have a collection of games on my iPad, which I use exclusively for that, since the kids can play w/ it. Occasionally use apps like Yelp! and Fandango, but that's about all the apps I use.
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It doesn't allow any messages to be sent from the tablet number: it prompts one to associate the app w/ an existing Verizon phone number. Which is bizarre, since they've provided a non voice phone number to the tablet for it to use cellular data.
In iMessage, each Window is unique to a conversation. If I'm conversing w/ 2 people, only the 3 of us will be in the conversation. If they add someone else, it will be a different message thread, and I'll know that more people have been brought in
Correction: some games wanted to use my cellular data, not the location. Which there's no compelling reason for them to have. They can update my scores when I'm near a trusted WiFi
No, b'cos those phone numbers & emails are not connected
Snowflake can't handle the fact that the entire Left is in meltdown and has still not gotten over Trump's victory, and so is engaging in projection. Snowflakes are mainly on the Left - kids who've graduated w/o being taught how to pick their POVs and debate them!
All the Right. Not just your 'alt.right snowflakes', but even establishment Republicans know Zuckerberg's bias towards the Left, and are not likely to support him even against Trump. Ideally, they'd like someone like Ben Sass or Jeff Flake to run against him, but given the way Trump mopped the floor w/ 16 other GOP candidates last year, I doubt that anyone will dare run against him
There won't be any primary on the (R) side - Republicans - even Never Trumpers - will be too scared to run. Last year too, they were scared of him when they were already in the race, and only hit out at him when it was clear that his nomination was inevitable.
Even on the (D) side, they will have trouble finding candidates - aside from the Resistance people. Problems is that mainstream Dems will have the same trouble that the Republicans had against Bill Clinton in 1996 - running against a president when the economy is doing well. And the fringe leftists always do better in street mobs than they do in elections, which is why Bernie - despite being vindicated after Hilary's defeat - couldn't win a single Dem primary, be it DNC chair or any of the congressional elections in MT, KS, GA or SC. They'll probably put Pocahontas or Kamala Harris, and she'll go down in flames, probably losing every battleground state that Hilary won.
The world will change whether people who enjoy driving like it or not. Just like nobody today insists on riding in an assisted elevator those people will have to adapt. Over time the pressures of technology will make human driven cars more expensive to own because of the higher insurance rates, having to add more mechanical steering components etc. Even just individual vehicle ownership may become very expensive because car sharing services will likely become extremely prevalent and efficient. Owning a vehicle outright will make very little economic sense. There will always be a market for manually operated cars but those cars are likely going to get relegated to race tracks and that market will probably be as big as the market for chariots today. And yes, chariots are still a thing and there is a chariot racing track not far from my place. And it's being used daily. But needless to say the people who go there don't ride chariots to the office in the morning.
The one time I drove a Saturn Electric car several years ago, it was a strange feeling. After starting the car, there was no sound, and while the car moved smoothly, it hardly felt like I was driving. That sort of experience takes a lot of getting used to. For similar reasons, people will initially feel strange sitting in a car - particularly alone - w/ no driver.
Well, the future Ubers & Lyfts are more likely to be autonomous vehicles, since the human 'employees' ain't always available
I agree w/ you w/ some of the privacy issues, but some apps do have some big positives about them. Although I have a navigation unit in my car, the maps on a smartphone are generally up to date. If you receive a check, it's a great convenience to scan it both sides and use the banking app to deposit it. If you are out of town, it's handy to have Yelp! tell you the nearby restaurants of your choice. One of the biggest things about smartphones is the way they put the camera to use, and how handy it is - like on the occasions I was in an accident, how I could instantly take pictures of the damages to both cars for the insurance.
I don't, however, as a rule, put my real identity on Twitter, FaceBook et al. In fact, anything that requires a lot of typing - I do that on my laptop. It's a lot more fluent than using 2 thumbs on an on-screen keyboard w/ tiny keys.
Sounds like a laptop would have done the job for you just great. And if you don't like Microsoft, a Macbook or Chromebook would have done exactly what you're describing.
Honestly, the biggest reasons to have smartphones is for things like video calling, texting and other apps. If one is not into them, one could use those legacy phones like those flip phones. Texting was something I only started doing after I got my first smart phone - a Nokia Lumia 520. Prior to that, I'd rarely text, since hitting a numeric keypad to type a message was a pain. But the Windows Phone 8 interface - particularly their keyboard - was a delight to use.
Those are fine - was referring to Google's Message+. I have a Verizon Ellipsis that comes w/ that, yet I can't use it w/ the cellular number that comes w/ that tablet.
I know it's owned by FaceBook, but I don't have any FaceBook account itself associated w/ that number. And I've never seen ads - so far!
Not to the scale it has since Europe became a free for all, you little Muzzie cock sucker! Where public signs have to be posted telling people not to grope or rape women, or where flyers are distributed on the 'right way' to have sex.
By now, all the maps are at par - Google Maps, Apple Maps and Bing Maps.
What phone do you have - an Android? I'm guessing yes, given that you rarely use Google Play. In which case, how is Google search app not installed - it's almost a part of the OS.
I've seen a few. Best reason to have WhatsApp is if you know people who use phones different from yours - be it iPhones, Androids, Windows Phones. Especially if one has the third, it's great to have WhatsApp: it's a common platform for messages, photos, videos and video calling. Until recently, one couldn't do a video call b/w an iPhone and an Android, or a Windows Phone and any of the others. WhatsApp changed it all.
It's on iPod Touch? How does that work - doesn't it need a phone number? I can understand FaceTime, which works from email IDs as well, but this?
Which is why I don't get why they include messaging apps on tablets, when those apps can't use the cellular phone# of the tablets, as opposed to phones within the plan
iMessage can be used to send text messages to anyone. It's only if one wants to include photos or videos that it gets restrictive. Reason I use WhatsApp - it works across phone platforms and different family members have different phones.
I've never had a device that came w/ FaceBook: if I wanted it, it had to be downloaded separately. Which is different for Google apps on an Android, where you get most of them whether you want them or not. Most ridiculous: having messenger included on my Android tablet even though I can't use the phone number on that tablet to send messages: I'd have to associate it w/ one of the phones.
How do they know whether someone uses YouTube and Maps, or simply has it on the phone b'cos it can't be removed?
The app can report your GPS location, phone number, and other informatics back to the app developer and their advertising partners.
Why would a consumer want that?
There are times that they are nice to have. Like when I take pictures and send them to family, it's nice to include the location of where I took it, so that if interested, they can check out on a map. Some apps, like Costco, tell me where the nearest store is if I happen to be out of town and allow them to access my location
But there are a lot of apps that have no business knowing my location, such as all the games I found it bizarre when Monopoly requested access to my location & pictures: why? The only thing I gave it was access to my music list, so that it could play my songs in the background while I play. Otherwise I check whether any app has any reason to know my location, and if it doesn't, it doesn't get it.
I just use my laptop or tablet as a TV: use the Android toys to watch YouTube, including live programming there. Don't have a big screen and haven't since 2008
Like AC, I too don't have a personal Facebook account. (I do have a couple of anonymous FB accounts which nobody knows about), so I don't get invitations that way. Any invitation is by word of mouth, text or WhatsApp.
Facebook (81 percent), YouTube (71 percent), Facebook Messenger (68 percent), Google Search (61 percent), Google Maps (57 percent), Instagram (50 percent), Snapchat (50 percent), Google Play (47 percent), Gmail (44 percent), and Pandora (41 percent)
I have 5 devices (2 iOS, 2 Androids, 1 Windows 10 Mobile), and here are the breakdowns of what I have on each:
Facebook: NONE
YouTube: Both the Androids - they come pre-installed. But didn't bother installing them on the iPhone/iPad
Facebook Messenger: NONE
Google Search: there on my Androids, but not on iOS/Windows - I just use the defaults. On iOS, I made it DuckDuckGo, which is not an option on Androids. On Windows, I just use Bing
Google Maps: Here again, I use the defaults - Google Maps on the Androids, Apple Maps on the iOS and Bing Maps + Waze on the Windows Phone
Instagram: None. One of my games on the iPad has me upload scenes on Instagram, and for that, I just use the browser
Snapchat: None. Never saw a reason to use it, which would be family members using it.
Google Play: Again, why is this listed, when it's the default way to get one's apps?
Gmail: Like the above, there on my Androids, not on my other devices
Pandora: None. I download songs from YouTube on my laptop, copy them to the SD card of the devices that have them, and play them there. For a lot of them, I made them into MP3s which I then put into my iPod, and play it in the car.
Some apps that I do use b/w my devices - WhatsApp, FaceTime, Costco, OneDrive, LastPass, various credit card, bank & other financial apps (Am Ex, Citi, et al), PayPal, Sirius XM and Vonage. Also have a collection of games on my iPad, which I use exclusively for that, since the kids can play w/ it. Occasionally use apps like Yelp! and Fandango, but that's about all the apps I use.