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Originally Posted by derangedhermit
Re: Privacy. Without physical removal of the wi-fi hardware (and BT and whatever), it is foolish to think any machine made by Google, running a Google OS and apps, provides you with any privacy except entirely at Google's discretion. If you are "unconnected", I guess they know how to store something they want until you are connected. Not that I think Apple or MS are alternatives in this regard.
What I wish would take off, based on a bunch of R&D and market repositioning in response to the current revelations of commercial and gov't intrusion, is FirefoxOS-based systems (phones+tablets+notebooks) that focus on security and privacy. All FOSS, of course.
As it is, Mozilla has nothing to sell to consumers except a "we're cheaper" message, and that's nowhere to be; and there is a desperate need for someone to step up, and maybe enough consumers grasp that, and care, to make a market, although I doubt that last. Mozilla is the only organization that I see that could convincingly occupy that market position.
Android or Chrome, maybe I'm too old-fashioned, but it's teeth-gritting time when someone says I don't need to see the files on the storage system, and it's rebellion time when they say I *can't*. Oh, and there does need to be some provision for substantial local storage for me. Online can be an option, maybe the main one, but there also needs to be a nice internal place for my mp3s and epubs and jpgs and...32GB or 64GB won't cut it.
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For "digital natives" the cloud is something new, revolutionary, and not to be feared. For some of us "digital immigrants" we know the cloud is nothing more than a throwback to IT data centers of two generations ago, and that devices like the Chromebook are little more than 21st century versions of an IBM 3277 terminal.
I remember those days. I remember having to go through computer operation's procedures to get access to my data, access to my printouts, and access to the CPU to perform certain functions. The introduction of the first mass produced personal computers were truly revolutionary. Having experienced computing before personal computers and the freedom it provided, there is no way that I'm going back to those times.
hey you kids, get off my lawn!