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It was already a slow week when the news came on Wednesday of Steve Jobs’ demise. Since then, most tech sites have been reporting on not much else. As always, however, there were a few things to note…Privacy Issues with Kindle Fire’s Silk Browser. Almost as soon as Amazon unveiled their new Kindle Fire tablet last Wednesday, Naked Security raised some privacy concerns about the device’s browser, called Silk. It seems the browser, in order to offer a quicker user experience, does most of it’s heavy lifting in the cloud:
I've saved the following quote for 5 years. I read it, probably on wired.com, right when the Zune was coming out, and all the Wagg Ed shills and MS Fanbois predicted Zune would take over the world, just like Windows did:
Quoting:
"Avoid," is my general message. The Zune is a square wheel, a product
that's so absurd and so obviously immune to success that it evokes
something akin to a sense of pity...
That's Andy Ihnatko writing. Just like only Microsoft could introduce a "serious" operating system in 1994 without a network-transparent windowing system (NT), only Microsoft could produce something as apparently horrible as Zune and still see memorial service articles about it in the trade press.
That is a wonderful quote, and well worth saving. Remember Ballmer going on about 'squirting'? Ew.
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That's Andy Ihnatko writing. Just like only Microsoft could introduce a "serious" operating system in 1994 without a network-transparent windowing system (NT), only Microsoft could produce something as apparently horrible as Zune and still see memorial service articles about it in the trade press.