“I am firmly entrenched in the Google system for email and other stuff. That’s what kept me in the Android camp for so long,” James Kendrick writes for ZDNet. “But the fact is, Google is supporting its services very well on iOS, and I use them heavily on the iPad. The same should hold true for the iPhone.”
“This thought process leads me to wait for the next iPhone, the iPhone 6 or whatever it will be called. I’ve waited this long to switch phones so I may as well wait until the fall when Apple should spring the next iPhone,” Kendrick writes. “I own an iPad so I can leverage most apps I’ve purchased. ”
“Most importantly to me, when iOS 8 arrives around the same time as the new iPhone, it will link to the iPad. I’ll be able to answer calls on the iPad if that’s what I’m using (like now), while leaving the iPhone in the pocket or gear bag,” Kendrick writes. “That is a very big deal to me, and it’s pushed me over the edge to go iPhone.”
Read more in the full article here.
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Am I the only guy creeped out by Google’s parasitic data-sucking nature?
Nope
On this forum, you are just one of many who are creeped out by Google and offended by Samsung, mplas3785.
Countless companies do data mining. Google gets a bad wrap because it shares the data it collects and organizes publicly, instead of just hoarding and selling it.
Google is an advertising company.
They are selling all the data they vacuum up.
The more you give them, the more they can charge to target you.
Everything they build and give to you for free is to increase your data footprint. It’s not motivated by kindness.
You seem misinformed on Google’s business model, data collecting practices, and how advertising business works in general. They certainly are not violating their own terms of service by selling personal data to third parties.
Advertising in general is not about selling personal data, but rather selling people’s attention. Targeted advertising (Google’s specialty) is about eliminating random irrelevant ads by making ads contextual – which makes advertising both less annoying and more effective.
mathblaster,
In your 2nd post, I get the feeling you are being an apologist for Google.
Let us rephrase. Google makes money by selling an ad which makes use of what they know of us, at the very least. If there are other ways that they are making money from knowledge of us, then the odds are that’s even worse.
What a load of crap, who cares what their terms of service are, it’s not tike there is anyway to negotiate that, most just click right on by.
And you are either disingenuous or clueless, they do not just want my attention, they want to know AS MUCH as they can about me, so I can be categorized, indexed and sold to the highest bidder. They want to know what I search, where I search, how much I spend online, and on and on and on.
When I do a web search to research something, getting banner adds at ever site I visit for the highest bidder that bought my info isn’t more effective, its fucking annoying and I hate it, in fact I will never-ever click one of those links and am highly motivated to buy anything but the shit blinking in my face when all I want is a news, sports or weather update.
Google doesn’t do “Advertising in General” they collect, categorize, index and sell everything they can get, and are actively seeking methods, technologies, and services that will allow them to gather more all under the guise of FREE. NO Thanks..
All I’m saying is Google’s advertising way less terrible than most ad-supported companies. Way less terrible, then for example, MacDailyNews. This ad supported website’s use of ads are TERRIBLE. The people who run this site should feel ashamed about subjecting its ad viewing users to this garbage. Where’s the outrage about MDN’s advertising? So Google uses data. Big. Deal. The NSA, Facebook, Microsoft all use data too, except in way more intrusive ways, without nearly as much transparency or privacy minded restrictions, and using that data in ways that do not benefit any of the people they collect it from. At least I know what Google is using data for, and getting some benefit out of it.
MacDailyNews is collecting data too. They track everything you do here, what computers you are on, your geographic location, how long you spend on each page, and more. Did you even know that? If you can read JavaScript, you can see the code on every single MacDailyNew page – their tracker id is UA-1559768-1. And that’s just MacDailyNew’s tracking code. Who knows what all their many third party advertisers are tracking? I bet MDN doesn’t even know – they probably just copy and paste their advertiser’s code onto their server, don’t ask questions about it, and accept their money. If I had to guess, I’d assume they are tracking EVERYTHING, using every digital tracking technique they can find, including cross domain tracking.
I’m not saying I love advertising or Google, but compared to vast majority data collectors and advertisers (as in most companies on the Web), they are way more transparent and fair than average. I’ve got way more legitimate things to be angry and paranoid about than Google – the one data collection company using its data to for useful free public services for everyone.
i use the Epic browser and close frequently, often when i open a macdailynews story it says it blocked 20-30 trackers….
not at all
I didn’t know Continuity worked between iPhones and iPads by themselves. I thought it was just Macs. You can answer and talk on your iPhone through your iPad? Now that’s gold. I better see that in some Apple commercials later this year.
Yep – so now you can look cooler than your phablet toting Samsung friends by holding your iPad to your head and taking calls through the iPhone in your pocket (or do they make one bigger than an iPad now?). Might want to take it easy and start with a mini – don’t want to look too cool.
A few years ago I had to send my iPhone in for service. Since I have a Skype number I had all my calls forwarded there and used my (full size) iPad as a phone for a few days. It wasn’t fun, but the looks I got were priceless!
Or I can just use my Earpods with the mic. Or a Bluetooth headset. Or the speakerphone when I’m home and my iPhone is in another room.
He won’t be the first tech journalist. I expect Andy Ihnatko and few other well known names to make the switch.
Andy In-outko can go suck on a beet for all I care.
Here’s a demo of this ipad phone call feature.
I have to say I don’t believe this article. It sounds false and contrived.
Although I love to hear about people jumping from Android to iOS, if this person used Google “for email and other stuff”, and was using an Android phone with the Google ecosystem, he would have an Android tablet. Not an iPad.
I cannot say the article is a falsehood, only that it sounds contrived. We don’t need false or contrived stories to tell us the value proposition of the Apple ecosystem.
We’ll just say.. Welcome to iPhone (or whatever it will be called)…. Enjoy.
Speaking of the next iPhone 6, dunno if anyone’s already mentioned this but I wonder if Apple called the 5C the 5C because the new iPhones might be the 6A (5.5″), 6B (4.7″) & 6C (4″)? Of course the 5S throws a monkey wrench into that naming hypothesis. We’ll soon find out. I know they will 6C’eed with whatever they name it.
How can anyone with an IQ above that of the common slug continue to use services provided by Google? Have they no self-respect? No shame? Here, take my private thoughts, my likes and dislikes, my passions and my loved ones, and sell all of that information to any huckster with a few bucks to spend. Yeah, I don’t mind at all because I get free email instead of paying $5 or $6 bucks a month for it. That’s all my privacy and my life are worth to me. Good gawd, people!
“I’ll be able to answer calls on the iPad if that’s what I’m using (like now)”
You can do that today with a number of apps.
You’re late