If you use iPhone's Siri, you MUST read this...

[Kheenbish]

I had a buddy ask Siri, "Places to bury a body?" No shit she listed dumps, alleys, landfills , and all sorts of areas. I found it funny, then thought, " Who the fuck thought to add that to the programming ?"

 

[Muppet]

The voice on Siri turns me on....:wall:

F.M.

 

[policemedic]

Did someone say tits?

 

[racing_kitty]

Did someone say tits?

(.)(.) Otherwise, keep dreaming.

 

[digrar]

Liking my nexus 5, had a Samsung Galaxy S2 prior to this one and it had it's moments but was generally pretty good. On the upside I've dropped both repeatedly and have never had a cracked screen.

 

[Brill]

Pashtuns have iPhones now?

http://money.cnn.com/2014/10/13/technology/security/fbi-apple/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

 

[fox1371]

@lindy I know you're joking...but they do haha.

I stick with iPhones, because I know what I can do with phones that use the Android and Blackberry OS from my laptop...I would need to jailbreak an iPhone to do the same. The Android market is filled with Malware. They just came out with a huge story about flashlight apps sending private data to China, Russia, and India. The apps were all easily acceptable for android, yet not for Apple. Do some research about installing spyware onto an android device vs an iPhone and you'll see. Plenty of companies offering different programs that operated quietly in the background of androids and blackberries that will send you all phone logs, text messages, browsing history...everything. All in the name of ensuring your children are being safe on their phones. And of course, nobody would use these programs for any sort of criminal activity. There are safety protocols that you can put in place if you do use an android phone, but the average person just doesn't know how to set it all up.

 

[Blizzard]

@lindy I know you're joking...but they do haha.

I stick with iPhones, because I know what I can do with phones that use the Android and Blackberry OS from my laptop...I would need to jailbreak an iPhone to do the same. The Android market is filled with Malware. They just came out with a huge story about flashlight apps sending private data to China, Russia, and India. The apps were all easily acceptable for android, yet not for Apple. Do some research about installing spyware onto an android device vs an iPhone and you'll see. Plenty of companies offering different programs that operated quietly in the background of androids and blackberries that will send you all phone logs, text messages, browsing history...everything. All in the name of ensuring your children are being safe on their phones. And of course, nobody would use these programs for any sort of criminal activity. There are safety protocols that you can put in place if you do use an android phone, but the average person just doesn't know how to set it all up.

Apple claims to have a more robust review and security of apps in the Apple Store. However, knowing someone that has developed and deployed apps into the various app stores internationally, like the "security" of iOS, this claim is believed to be largely overstated.

 

[fox1371]

Apple claims to have a more robust review and security of apps in the Apple Store. However, knowing someone that has developed and deployed apps into the various app stores internationally, like the "security" of iOS, this claim is believed to be largely overstated.

Yes and no. They do a quite a bit of review on their apps. If they didn't, there wouldn't be a market for jailbreaking an iPhone and running software such as Cydia.

 

[Blizzard]

Yes and no. They do a quite a bit of review on their apps. If they didn't, there wouldn't be a market for jailbreaking an iPhone and running software such as Cydia.

They simply have too much demand for new apps. There is no way they can vet them the way they claim. At least Google and Windows stores don't try to mask it.

 

[Ranger Psych]

A smartphone is a mini computer. If you expect any corporation to protect you or your data that you don't have an ongoing contractual business relationship with (hint, just because you bought an iphone or android device, you don't) then you're fucking smoking crack.

Having said that, it's really easy to see what specific things different applications do with an android. Plus, when you buy something on the market/store/whatever you want to call it... it's for ALL your android devices.

So everything I bought for my phone is available on my reader, tablet, other spare phone, and anything android I buy in the future. It's also free to get the developer kit and actually make stuff for it, unlike trying to dev for crapintosh in your pocket.