An open challenge to PandoDaily

Post by hking329 » Sat, Mar 03, 2012, 4:41 PM UTC

AznHisoka wrote: post #36

cheald wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hint: scripting.com has a better pagerank than PandoDaily. He's the guy who practically invented blogging.

again, that doesn't matter. Even after knowing who he is now, trivial content is still trivial content. And he might've invented something, but blogging most definitely isn't it. Blogging was going to be come about inevitably once someone invented the internet - that was the hard part. Blogging is just an extension of people expressing themselves.

Please, please. Why go there? You've got this thread where you could be having a discussion on an interesting and important topic, but you're wanting to fork it into a personal attack over something that's irrelevant to the topic and that has been discussed ad ad nauseum on tens of thousands of other such threads.

Post by jsavin » Sun, Mar 04, 2012, 7:01 AM UTC

davewiner wrote: post #22

falling wrote: post #17

So, since every single application in your computer can access all of the same data and do whatever they please, has had that ability since forever and we see that as an advantage (see problems with adding sandboxing on the Mac), why are we so concerned about it on our phones and completely ignore the issues otherwise? The only reason I could come up with is that on the phone we have apps that actually use that data,…

People are much less careful with what they download and install on their iPads and iPhones because of Apple's assurance that the apps are safe.

Exactly. There's an implicit promise to Apple's sandbox and theirs and Jobs' statements about how they're protecting users from Internet scaries (including porn and other "offensive" content) has given users an incorrect impression that data on their phones is safer than data on their computer. Add to that the fact that most adults remember an era when cellphones had no connectivity, or only USB or serial connections, and its not hard to see how people missed this.

Now the platform owners (Apple, Tootle, Microsoft, etc) must respond to keep the promise they've made, whether stated or implied, or eventually users will rebel. But until the response or rebellion happens, how much damage will be done?

The platforms will adapt, and users will eventually upgrade or move to competitors, but it will take months or years.

Re: An open challenge to PandoDaily

Re: An open challenge to PandoDaily