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But isn't the phone number information part intriguing? You dial a phone number (or just had been called from one), and it potentially provides you with company
by MAGZine 13y ago
But isn't the phone number information part intriguing? You dial a phone number (or just had been called from one), and it potentially provides you with company name, address, operating hours. Directions are just a touch away. After you complete a call, it could ask you if you'd like to insert a calendar item at the listed address.
This is welcome functionality for me. Google's ads all said and done seem to be fairly unobtrusive, so I trust that if there are advertisements (beyond this), it won't be hostile.
- Brakenshire 13y agoThat means that Google will have information on its server covering all phone calls I make, and at what time. That is way beyond what is acceptable, for me.
- ZoFreX 13y agoReally? I make like... 3 calls a week from my phone, generally of low importance. I deal in hundreds of emails which range from the trivial to bank account details. Why would I trust Google with the latter and not the former?
- pedrocr 13y agoBeing an Android user doesn't imply being a Gmail user.
- e40 13y agoFor like 99% of Android users it does.
- gbog 13y agoHere in China people barely use emails and never use gmail, and most run android. Or maybe your note needs to add "in my little personal tiny slice of the world" context?
- Apocryphon 13y agoWait, what? What do people in China use instead of emails? Do they just use SMS all of the time?
- hayksaakian 13y agoeducate yourself http://news.yahoo.com/android-huge-china-google-control-035903534.html http://news.yahoo.com/android-huge-china-google-control-0359...
- alextingle 13y agoIn what way does that link answer the question? Just to reiterate: What do people in China use instead of e-mail?
- gbog 13y agoThey use message services such as QQ and WeChat.
- joesb 13y agoAre you saying they use messaging service instead of Email? Citation please? Most people use both messaging service and email, each for different purpose. For example, it's easier to create new topic with email. It's easier to attach a file. It can be automate for mailing list and have easier address for support email. How does QQ or WeChat replace that in China?
- gbog 13y agoSorry, not convenient to search the topic on my phone, but it is kind of common knowledge in China. Our young and old nannies all use qq, and they probably have an email attached to their account but do not know it. many colleagues and friends even with higher education rarely check their mail, maybe reuse a week. So you'd ask, how to share contacts? All goes through the phone number, every one has one and know it. Qq is much more than our text messaging, it can share files, and is easier than mail for that. When I hear all the fuss about fixing email I can't help but think that it is already fixed in China.
- Brakenshire 13y agoAnd, of course, I already give the same information to my phone company. But really it's an issue of combining that data with what Google already knows about me (location throughout the day through Android location services, phonebook through Android sync, gmail, web search history, web browsing history through its tracker network, and so on). I do appreciate that my argument and my actual use of the internet are inconsistent, my only defence is I am just in the process of working out how to move to some different services, to at least fragment where I'm sending my data.
- MAGZine 13y agoFor advertisments, maybe. If they were interested in privacy, it wouldn't be difficult to fetch top-10,000 information for municipalities you live in. It could pre-fetch data for future locales if it sees you have a plane ticket somewhere... just a thought. I doubt Google could provide you relevant feedback for a private phone number 2,000 miles away anyhow--that would basically be just trolling for information.
- ryanhuff 13y agoSince Google apps tie into Google plus, how long before Google touts how every phone call made to and from an android phone is a G+ activity? Sounds like a huge headline opportunity to me. [Edit] Thinking more about this, and how G+, gmail and hangouts are melding together, you have to wonder how Google plans to leverage this new feature/info. Will people who call me suddenly appear in my gmail IM list as contacts?
- redler 13y agoAre "phone calls" between Android users with sufficiently up-to-date versions of the OS routed entirely over the internet as G+ voice chats? iOS bypasses carrier SMS with iMessage, and, I think, Facetime audio-only calls between capable devices. Seems like the next logical progression.
- justincormack 13y agoNo. This would be rather noticeable as depends on data connection quality. Apple diverting SMS is somewhat less error prone.
- josteink 13y agothere are apps for that and have been for ages if that is what you want. they are all opt in and they don't automatically route all your phone call history and meta data to Google. this is user hostile in the same way mandatory Google+ was. it's also another step in a slippery slope of android being less open and more of a source to feed Google data pipe. what we're seeing here is the end of android as it was originally envisioned. and that makes me sad.
- GrinningFool 13y ago" so I trust that if there are advertisements (beyond this), it won't be hostile. " So often we make this decision based on obtrusiveness of the ads. What about the information you give away every time an ad is shown, or a search performed on your behalf?