Why I might never buy an Android phone...(short and sweet, comments welcome)

[erkwist]

Not sure I understand exactly how google knowing where you are and what your doing at all times is not thinking for yourself, its not like someone at google is changing your calender or scheduled events.

There is a built in price of information in most things you buy, they either want your address, income level, age ect. just for records to see who is buying the product. That's why many companies want your zip code when you buy something in one of their stores.

I don't know about anyone else, but my android phone also gives me the option to opt out of sharing gps info with google. Not saying I 100% think that that means they don't ever use any of the info my phone generates, but I doubt its just there to fool me.

[rainfreak]

[rainfreak]

Woa... apparently I was wrong all along and I am sorry. Google knows way more than any of us thought. According to this web site, Google knows all of the following (and a hell of a lot more):

• What Willis is talking about
• How to go back once you've gone black
• When to pull out
• The last digit of Pi
• What will happen in 2012
• More than Bing
• The Crabby Patty secret formula
• Never to drop the soap
• There's nothing wrong with a little bump and grind

Damn... they DO know everything...

[redd214]

Originally Posted by rainfreak

Woa... apparently I was wrong all along and I am sorry. Google knows way more than any of us thought. According to this web site, Google knows all of the following (and a hell of a lot more):

• What Willis is talking about
• How to go back once you've gone black
• When to pull out
• The last digit of Pi
• What will happen in 2012
• More than Bing
• The Crabby Patty secret formula
• Never to drop the soap
• There's nothing wrong with a little bump and grind

Damn... they DO know everything...

bwhahahahahshaha. i seriously almost dropped my phone reading that. "the crabby patty formula" classic post, thank you rainfreak!!

[JQuill]

You people seem to forget that I work in advertising and marketing in a creative and management capacity...and the more ignorant a customer and the more complacent they are the easier it is to find out whether they're actually paying attention to what's going on around them. (sounds to me like most people here are the type of people to get hit by a car because they walk into oncoming traffic while wearing their ipod)


If they're not paying attention then it's easier to sell things to them because 90% of the information we take in is through out sub-concious.

If you guys want to keep ignoring the truth, and as a result of ignoring the truth, THINKING that you're thinking for yourself until you realize 90% of the movies you watch and 90% of the music you listen to are all put out by the top 5 media companies in the world.

5 companies control ALL the worlds media...News Corporation, Disney, Viacomm, General Electric, and AOL Time Warner...those 5 companies own almost every single record label, radio station, television station, and piece terestrial advertising space on planet earth. If you think you've been thinking for yourself for most of your life...if you listen to or watch any media that these 5 companies put out...and lets be honest, none of you have any idea what other companies these conglomorates own because you don't seem to care that you've been brainwashed since age 6 without realizing it.


And the fact that you all thanked somebody 3 times for trying to tell me that I'm a conspiracy theorist...but he did so by posting a picture of a marketing tool (the adult swim charachters) that was produced by a major media company for viral purposes JUST LIKE THIS...so every time something viral happens YOU ALL WILL use that image and everyone goes "COOL, ADULT SWIM I WATCH THAT HE'S FUNNY, NOW WHERES MY $300 WORTH OF ADULT SWIM MERCHANDISE AND MY DVD SET THAT I CAN WATCH CAUSE I JUST SAW A PICTURE OF IT ONLINE, MAYBE I'LL WATCH THE NEW EPISODE TONIGHT SO SOME EXECUTIVE AT NEWS CORPS STOCK WILL GO UP"

...if you people want an education in marketing, then post something real, don't just post random insults because you literally have nothing valid to say.



It's obvious none of you have any idea what you're talking about when it comes to marketing so this will be my last post in this now joke of a thread.

[redd214]

Originally Posted by JQuill

You people seem to forget that I work in advertising...and the more ignorant a customer and the more complacent they are the easier it is to find out whether they're actually paying attention. if they're not paying attention then it's easier to sell things to them because 90% of the information we take in is through out sub-concious. It's obvious none of you have any idea what you're talking about when it comes to marketing so this will be my last post in this now joke of a thread.

so based on what you jus said google/android isnt the problem its people that are the problem. and like i stated before can you fault google for recognizing these trends and profiting from them. i sure cant.

oh btw i own a marketing firm

[JQuill]

Originally Posted by redd214

so based on what you jus said google/android isnt the problem its people that are the problem. and like i stated before can you fault google for recognizing these trends and profiting from them. i sure cant.

oh btw i own a marketing firm

Ofcourse it's people that are the problem...Google is run by *GASP* HUMAN BEINGS. What do you know...do you think I'm talking about how a bunch of computers with minds of their own are the problem...we're not there yet.

And they're not RECOGNIZING trends my friend they are MANUFACTURING the latest trend based on what is most profitable.

All i'm saying is that GREEDY marketers coupled with complacent consumers makes the entire country dumber. And people are fooled into thinking Google fosters independance...when in fact they promote complacency in the consumer.

Originally Posted by rainfreak

Woa... apparently I was wrong all along and I am sorry. Google knows way more than any of us thought. According to this web site, Google knows all of the following (and a hell of a lot more):

• What Willis is talking about
• How to go back once you've gone black
• When to pull out
• The last digit of Pi
• What will happen in 2012
• More than Bing
• The Crabby Patty secret formula
• Never to drop the soap
• There's nothing wrong with a little bump and grind

Damn... they DO know everything...

LMAO!!!!!!! laugh of the week!!!! that was priceless....

[redd214]

lol you keep reenforcing my point. the problem is bigger than google so why single them out as the culprit. ok im really done this time haha

[elephant007]

What I'm getting from this thread is that Google is doing what any other company that wants to sell a product does, do you think Nike for example looks at trends of footwear and then makes a shoe that emulates what the market is trending to or do you think that Nike makes a shoe and makes it a trend setter?
If you're following trends and not setting or manufacturing them then you are behind other companies that are in the same industry as you. Nobody can sit back and let trends determine what they make, they have to make the trends. Let's take Apple for example (as much as I'd like to stay away from them, they're a prefect example though) Do you think Steve saw a trend in touch interface phones and decided to make a touch interface phone or do you think he created the touch interface phone and built a market for that phone? Something ridiculous like "you don't even know you need this phone yet"...
Google, like any other advertising firm, looks at statistics and tries to guess whats-to-come, they just seem to gather more accurate data and come up with better results. Ask any professional in marketing and I bet they envy Googles foresight.

This is all just a matter of how I see it