An Apple a day

I see on the BBC news website that Android phones will soon start deleting Facebook contacts from the phone’s address book, where the Facebook app is being used.

It seems that Google, who own and develop the android software have decioded that they no longer wish to play ball with Facebook over the latter’s unwillingness to fit in with Google’s data-sharing rules.

Originally, Facebook's Android app allowed users to populate the phone's address book with Facebook contacts.
However, that data could not be exported from the handset, instead it was controlled by Facebook - something Google has said it can no longer tolerate.

This all feels a bit like cutting your own nose off to spite your face. As far as I can see, though I am hardly on the cutting edge of the new electronic social dynamic, most kids use their phones for texting, music/videos and Facebook. Moreover, a lot of younger users are far more tolerant of all aspects of data-sharing than fogies like me.
I would have thought, therefore, that given the option of using a smartphone that allowed more Facebook access, or one that only allows a more restricted access or function, they would go for then latter.

Either way, I would have thought that the two corporations could just grow up and set a position between them where the consumer gets to choose. After all that’s where the money comes from.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12565527

An Apple a day

I see on the BBC news website that Android phones will soon start deleting Facebook contacts from the phone’s address book, where the Facebook app is being used.

It seems that Google, who own and develop the android software have decioded that they no longer wish to play ball with Facebook over the latter’s unwillingness to fit in with Google’s data-sharing rules.

Originally, Facebook's Android app allowed users to populate the phone's address book with Facebook contacts.
However, that data could not be exported from the handset, instead it was controlled by Facebook - something Google has said it can no longer tolerate.

This all feels a bit like cutting your own nose off to spite your face. As far as I can see, though I am hardly on the cutting edge of the new electronic social dynamic, most kids use their phones for texting, music/videos and Facebook. Moreover, a lot of younger users are far more tolerant of all aspects of data-sharing than fogies like me.
I would have thought, therefore, that given the option of using a smartphone that allowed more Facebook access, or one that only allows a more restricted access or function, they would go for then latter.

Either way, I would have thought that the two corporations could just grow up and set a position between them where the consumer gets to choose. After all that’s where the money comes from.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12565527

All quiet on the western front

After a relatively quiet week’s commuting on account of half term, the Tube was unaccountably rammed this morning, which is even stranger considering that once off it, crowd levels were down outside the system. People seem to be enjoying riding the underground for no obvious reason today, bless them.

The office is quiet, too. It is always a bit strange when it is like this, but being Friday, it suits me down to the ground.

Having carefully folded the relevant part of the paper under my keyboard, I am now in a position to do some surreptitious sudoku while working.

It helps me concentrate, okay?

All quiet on the western front

After a relatively quiet week’s commuting on account of half term, the Tube was unaccountably rammed this morning, which is even stranger considering that once off it, crowd levels were down outside the system. People seem to be enjoying riding the underground for no obvious reason today, bless them.

The office is quiet, too. It is always a bit strange when it is like this, but being Friday, it suits me down to the ground.

Having carefully folded the relevant part of the paper under my keyboard, I am now in a position to do some surreptitious sudoku while working.

It helps me concentrate, okay?