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>Apple and Google know that they will be losing customers, more and more Until they actually do lose some customers this silly meme should die. Where are these
by happyscrappy 12y ago
>Apple and Google know that they will be losing customers, more and more
Until they actually do lose some customers this silly meme should die. Where are these customers allegedly going, back to dumb phones?
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- eli 12y agoNo, I have not noticed that. What's their market share?
- matthewmacleod 12y agoNo. I think this might be a bubble effect.
- freehunter 12y agoI've noticed the increase in availability for secure phones (as in, there were zero before and now there is one), but even working in information security, I've never heard of anyone outside of Ars Technica or the like actually buying one, let alone using it. I wouldn't really call that a sharp increase in popularity except, of course, the sharp increase of going from zero to one.
- lnanek2 12y agoMost drug dealers or johns I see just buy a prepaid phone from Walgreens, i.e. a booty phone. Tracfone doesn't verify whatever you activate with, you can just make up whatever name/address.
- freehunter 12y agoThat's not really a secure phone or black phone, that's just a prepaid phone. Nothing inherently secure about it other than it's difficult to trace. The parent was talking about purposefully secured phones with encrypted phone call and messaging, etc.
- visarga 12y agoMaybe not lose customers now, but have customers that censure their own communication over public channels, and generally see these channels as insecure and potentially dangerous. Over years, that makes GMail and GDrive less valuable and their competition more attractive.