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UK Security Minister afraid to walk streets – LOLZ

TGDaily starts with the headline: UK Government minister says iPhone is a security risk and then continues with the text: London, England – UK Security Minister, Lord West of Spithead, says he won’t carry an iPhone or Blackberry due to security concerns. Speaking at a press conference yesterday to announce the set-up of the UK’s … Continue reading “UK Security Minister afraid to walk streets – LOLZ”

TGDaily starts with the headline:

UK Government minister says iPhone is a security risk

and then continues with the text:

London, England – UK Security Minister, Lord West of Spithead, says he won’t carry an iPhone or Blackberry due to security concerns.
Speaking at a press conference yesterday to announce the set-up of the UK’s Cyber Security Operations Centre, Lord West said that he fears attack from muggers or hackers and does not feel safe in his home neighborhood in east London.

Tells you one thing.

TDDaily knows that no-one gives a flying fuck about headlines mentioning the Blackberry.

As for the actual content, the honourable government minister should shut the fuck up considering the data loss we’ve suffered under this current administration which, I note, was fuck all to do with iPhones or Blackberry devices and more to do with CD-ROMs, laptops and USB memory sticks.

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Gah, another Entitlementard

Part of an email I got recently on the AUGD list: I accidently clicked on the wrong link on the Reunion.com site and it created Spam from my Gmail account. I am sincerely sorry. I have called Reunion and have filed a complaint and requested a call back from a manager. I also called Google … Continue reading “Gah, another Entitlementard”

Part of an email I got recently on the AUGD list:

I accidently clicked on the wrong link on the Reunion.com site and it created Spam from my Gmail account. I am sincerely sorry. I have called Reunion and have filed a complaint and requested a call back from a manager. I also called Google and the person that answered my call was very confrontational and insisted that Google did not have a relationship with Reunion and that any problem I had was my fault alone. If any one that has received the email sent out by Reunion is upset as I am here are the contacts for Reunion and Google.

The first thing to say is to take responsibility for your actions. An apology is fine but what’s this with phoning Reunion and Google. Is it their fault that you accidentally didn’t read a web page as you clicked through, accidentally clicked a link (which would have been explained) and accidentally entered your gmail username/password details to accidentally spam everyone in your address book, including a mailing list or two?

And with that attitude, I have zero faith that you were reasonable on the phone. Why? Well, because your demands on them were completely unreasonable.

Urging others to contact these companies in order to complain is the real sign of an Entitlementard. It’s the classic “I did something stupid and to make up for it, I’m going to find some customer support representatives and make their day hell because that’s what makes me feel better.”

Idiots like this should join the Free Software Foundation. Idiots like this make me ashamed to be an Apple User Group Leader.

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The future’s somewhat unclear…with Orange

HerIndoors is looking to get a HTC Touch Diamond and the only company that seems to be offering them is Orange. Orange looks good in this. £30 a month for 600 minutes, unlimited texts and unlimited mobile browsing. That beats O2’s iPhone tariff. Not so good. The “unlimited” browsing is for TWO MONTHS IN EVENINGS … Continue reading “The future’s somewhat unclear…with Orange”

HerIndoors is looking to get a HTC Touch Diamond and the only company that seems to be offering them is Orange.

Orange looks good in this. £30 a month for 600 minutes, unlimited texts and unlimited mobile browsing. That beats O2’s iPhone tariff.

Not so good. The “unlimited” browsing is for TWO MONTHS IN EVENINGS AND WEEKENDS. After that they get to charge their ridiculous data rates for browsing. Then it’s £5 a month for an OPT-OUT data plan which is still only evenings and weekends.

When you compare this deal to O2’s iPhone tariffs, it makes the iPhone look like a steal.

is there ANY carrier that offers the HTC Touch Diamond subsidised with a decent data plan?

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Verizon strategy: wait til the competitors get old and die

After reading this article in the Financial Times, I would recommend that Verizon’s shareholders start to demand a new CEO. While describing Apple as a “great company”, Mr Seidenberg highlights its small market share of global handset sales. Yeah, there are a hundred small PC manufacturers who went out of business when the bottom fell … Continue reading “Verizon strategy: wait til the competitors get old and die”

After reading this article in the Financial Times, I would recommend that Verizon’s shareholders start to demand a new CEO.

While describing Apple as a “great company”, Mr Seidenberg highlights its small market share of global handset sales.

Yeah, there are a hundred small PC manufacturers who went out of business when the bottom fell out of the PC market and everyone said Apple should go after the low end market. Well, guess what, Apple didn’t and Apple did okay in the high end. Previous figures dictate that the smartphone market is about 100 million handsets in 2008. And Apple, in just over a year will have captured 10% of the market. If you ignore that, the premium market, then you’re blind to what drives the market forward.

“There goes the conspiracy again,” he says of Apple. “You’re declaring them a winner before they’ve earned it on the field.”

Actually, Seidenberg is reinforcing Apple’s position by claiming there is a conspiracy. Because that would be stupid. Yes, let’s blame Apple’s success on a conspiracy because it couldn’t be because they were ….delivering what people wanted?

As handsets become banking tools and games controllers, he argues, mobile operators can up-end other companies’ business models. “It’s very cool. And Steve Jobs eventually will get old . . .  I like our chances.”

That’s your tactic? Wait til he gets old and retires? Are you kidding? That’s the Verizon strategy. Is that going to work with every competitor? You’re just going to wait til their star staff get old????

That has to be the most stupid strategy I’ve ever heard. Good luck with it, dumbass.

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