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Implicitly manufacturing American confidence in domestic brands with such headlines while economically harming China, this obviously doesn't need to have a shre
by newnewpdro 8y ago
Implicitly manufacturing American confidence in domestic brands with such headlines while economically harming China, this obviously doesn't need to have a shred of evidence to be worthwhile.
But don't forget all smartphones are pwned.
- friedman23 8y ago>But don't forget all smartphones are pwned. This is the safest assumption
- matt4077 8y agoSure, in the way that assuming all food is rotten is the only way to completely avoid food poisoning. If, however, you don't subscribe to the starving lifestyle, such blanket assumption are useless. Same for phones: do you just not use a phone? Does the poster above you rely on the heuristic that people using the term "pwned" generally don't have much of relevance to say anyway? Because if everything is terrible, and everyone is corrupt, and there is absolutely no use in considering the probability that some options are less terrible than others, and that there may be signs the public can pick up on to make decisions, then congratulations: those believes do help in feeling really smug about your cynicism. But they don't really help otherwise.
- balibebas 8y agoWithout NetGuard or similar all smartphones, everywhere, are indeed pwnd. The mistake made in using a food analogy is that, while both are consumables (consuming attention in the case of a phone) only one is a necessity to life.
- MichaelMoser123 8y agothe article mentions concerns over telco equipment; so it seems to be about their routers, not the phones. I wonder if they will spin off the phone business, as it seems to be turning into 'collateral damage', at least in Nato countries, that is. (disclaimer: bought Huawei phones for my kids - pretty good phones at reasonable prices)