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In Reply to: You got it (almost) all wrong posted by Stale on October 21, 2014 at 10:08:41:
"As your e-mail/calendar/address book are already on the web"
that's exactly what I was concerned about. i hope my calendar is not on the web. and i see no reason why my 'address book' should have to be. there is plenty of storage space on the internal / external chip on my mobile phone, for example, that doesn't get used and could be used for this purpose. Sure, my e-mail gets sent over the internet, and even the www, but it SHOULD be SSLed somewhere on the way, which I am no longer sure about.
Besides my local PC login password, I have not created a Cloud account with Win 8.1 as far as I know. Maybe I need to read the instructions/ Terms of Use of Win 8.1 again.
The point of having an Android phone was not to have everything synchronized, but to use the functionality, like internet access, which these mini computers enable. I do not see why that fundamentally committs one to sharing everything about what I do with the phone with my provider, or Google, or whoever else decides to pay for that information. Like I said, I might pay twice as much for a phone/provider that didn't constantly tap into my information.
The phone is to some extent configurable (I can disable apps) but why should information disappear when a synch app is disabled? It doesn't make sense. There is tons of storage space on the internal and external chip slot which doesn't get used, meanwhile the RAM is constantly being hijacked by apps working in the background to upload and update, etc.....
Basically, I'm troubled by the fundamental move in the IT business towards providing software services in return not for payment that fits the service, but for unlimited access to the information that you create, manage and use. Once you get people hooked on technology they don't understand or can manipulate, even if they didn't pay for that technology, then you've really got them. Try living without the A/C power that comes out of the wall for a day, and you'll see what I mean.
To me, it sounds like you long ago drank the koolaid and are fine with it, but I'm not. Although I did also drink a lot of koolaid in the last 15 years.
How do I get off the Win8.1 Cloud (as you said you did 2 years ago?)
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Follow Ups
- i don't think you understand... - Tom Schuman 13:31:03 10/21/14 (3)
- RE: i don't think you understand... - Hi-Fi Hokie 12:18:34 10/22/14 (0)
- No, YOU do not understand it - Stale 09:48:21 10/22/14 (1)
- thanks... - Tom Schuman 00:52:54 10/23/14 (0)
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