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I find taking pot shots at competing companies really cheap. Its 2015 and by now I think most people are aware that Facebook and Google collect all the informa
by krisgenre 11y ago
I find taking pot shots at competing companies really cheap.
Its 2015 and by now I think most people are aware that Facebook and Google collect all the information they can so that they can offer their services for 'free'.
How many would really pay for email, cloud storage, search, social network, browser..? what guarantees do I have that the government will NOT have access to my data if I pay for it?
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoI do pay for email, cloud storage and browser. There's a strong argument my personal information should not be harvested by the folks I paid. But paying for things is entirely unrelated to the government having access to your data. The govt can require a company to collect personal information that passes through their hands, even if they weren't collecting it for business purposes.
- krisgenre 11y agoHonestly, do you really think majority of the users would pay for these services?
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoPeople pay when they have to. People buy antivirus software and get no new features at all - just to avoid losing ground. As these other services become fragile (cost-cutting, competition driving dev costs up) folks will flock to anyone that doesn't suck, and pay for it.
- 72deluxe 11y agoHow do you pay for the browser? Are you talking about Safari and the fact that buying Apple hardware has subsidised the Safari development to some extent?
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoComes with the OS installations which I pay for.
- 72deluxe 11y agoThanks, I did wonder. I think we forget quickly how much software we get in OSes now (unless it's iOS where you need to download a Calculator app.....)