The great thing about these devices is that they offer absolutely no benefits to the people who buy them. They are the perfect corporate product.

To use a political analogy, they’re a bit like voting for Theresa May.

Originally shared by David Megginson

1987: Stasi & KGB break in to hide listening devices.

2017: Google & Apple make people pay to bug their own homes.

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/business/smart-speakers-apple-amazon-google-microsoft-1.4153237

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/05/who_are_the_sha.html

Pretty clever. How do you fool people into clicking on your GMail change password phishing link by making it look like a legitimate Google link? Why, that’s simple: get Google to steal your brand by using AMP. In the process of subsuming your web presence they hide all your links behind a legitimate looking Google link shortening service.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/russian-hackers-are-using-googles-own-infrastructure-to-hack-gmail-users

Watch this clip.

https://twitter.com/dannydutch/status/866636799581487104

They can’t help themselves. Google hard at work finding reasons why people should dump their Gmail accounts.

https://consumerist.com/2017/05/23/google-following-your-offline-credit-card-spending-to-tell-advertisers-if-their-ads-work/

Boycott.

http://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/google-chrome-wont-be-allowed-on-windows-10-s/

You can’t really complain about their helpdesk support. ThunderCrypt only want to target the global 1%

(that includes you, dummy)

The iPhone 7 is great but its standard keyboard and editing tools are utter shit.

Stock Android is so much better in every way.