The world's most mobile debate: Part 1

  Everyon's wondering how android and ios, square off well, I'm going to dig a little deeper than that, and go to the development of android and ios, to start off this debate. I've decided to start with a simple square off Of ios and android's services:

With google's android you certainly are spoiled for choice, with developers flocking to android, And software manufacturers practically lining up at the door to make more and more phones it's amazing apple, with just 1 current phone, the iphone 4s can even hold its ground. I mean Google already monopolizes the search engine market, with roots dug deep enough into almost everything you can never get rid of it, and now it's dominating the phone market. With the recent update to android market, now It's dipping its toes into the music market, with enticing offer such as free music, I can't even remember when itunes was the best. Now this is just my point of view, I personally like Google more because I like to have an open phone, that I can access without a special program, which my frustration with the iphone/ipod software, ( and is also why I tip my hat to the openiboot project.)

 Now on the apple side of things, I think I am the only person to ever "Break" their ipod, and I don't mean crash a few times, I mean not working at all. Which is a great achievement, Apple has built the most closed, least customizable, least resource hungry mobile OS. But, it's closed nature will be it's downfall. Needing everything to go through itunes, and only playing apple's video formats is utterly annoying, as my ipod will try to sync everything I have done since my last hook up to the computer, when all I want to do is to put 1 new song I bought on itunes on it, come on apple!

The apps are what has kept it going so long, Google's android market allows anyone to make an app, with very loose regulations, while apple always checks the quality of its apps, overall this leads to a better app browsing experience. So for services, It is like this:

Google:  Music:3/5, Apps: 4/5 and computer connectivity:5/5

apple:  Music:5/5, Apps: 5/5 and computer connectivity:2/5

leaving apple the winner....until next time.

-a rambling of a techie

 

Social mayhem

  "You have a friend request from ___________" is a common message on Facebook. What isn't common is that request being sent by a robot. Throughout the past few weeks "socialbots" have been silently getting over 250, that's right 250 gigabytes of data! It's unbelievable that all of facebook's affected users and, more amazingly facebook itself didn't realize this. The programmers of these "bots" were a group of Canadian users at the university of British Columbia. It's amazing though that just over 25% percent of the targeted users accepted, not suspicious at all about receiving a friend request from someone they've never heard of.
      This is a sad thing though because, all these people put almost every aspect of their personal life out for the world to see. I mean the social bots collected 250 gb's worth of data including real phone numbers, email addresses, web links, passwords, and precious memories. Even though this was just a project, if this was a real harmful, potentially malicious virus, it would still go basically undected, only 20% of the bots were detected and the others where eventually taken off. What I mean to say is:"Be careful what you put out there, cause' it may end up on a server somewhere in a hackers lab.

"Can I be your friend"