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Google Debuts 'Gboard' Keyboard for iPhone With Built-In Search Functionality

macintoshmac said:
I do not use Google's other products. Not Gmail, not Docs, not Drive, not Google+. I only use search and I don't care if they know what I search. My other data is safe. My emails are safe from their eyes.Privacy to me is having control over what do you allow others to know about you, that's it. Tell me if I am wrong and just offending you with mindless "parroting" as you call it.
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You use the one product, above all others, they want you to use. Safe... what does that mean? We all have a right to privacy. I just don't think some of us realize that what we consider private data and what companies consider private data can be, and often is, two different things. I've found it helpful to read the actual privacy policies. They give you a better indication of what a company is actually doing. That way, I know I'm making a better informed decision.

Offending me? How? Mindless parroting? Not sure who said that, but I'm guessing you're paraphrasing with a touch of hyperbole thrown in to enforce your point. Fair enough. In retrospect, parroting wasn't the greatest choice of word usage. Apologies for that.
 
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TrueBlou said:
I've never been under the impression that any company isn't buying user metrics from various sources. There is however a slight difference between buying information and mining it for profit.
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There is. But there is even less difference between saying we have your utmost privacy in mind and then finding out what we want about you elsewhere.

You’ve reminded me. I need to try a deep fried Mars Bar.
 
H2SO4 said:
There is. But there is even less difference between saying we have your utmost privacy in mind and then finding out what we want about you elsewhere.

You’ve reminded me. I need to try a deep fried Mars Bar.
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Such an unhealthy thing, I'd recommend avoiding it. There's a marvellous alternative I like to call an apple, much less fatty.
 
TrueBlou said:
Such an unhealthy thing, I'd recommend avoiding it. There's a marvellous alternative I like to call an apple, much less fatty.
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Yeah I know but I’ve heard it’s nice and something as bad as that periodically, (monthly?), won’t have any lasting damage.
 
macintoshmac said:
The above is what the article says.

This is what I said: Oh yes, I knew we are all just customers in one way or the other, but the creepy extent is creeping.

English is not my native, but I think you're plain wrong to assume I didn't read it. That extent to which they know about us, is creeping. Is what I said. Where is the confusion? Where are you accusing me of being lazy to not read it?

For the record, I am not saying Apple is the king and Tim Cook is the Elf Lord. If you felt I was insinuating.
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I appologise sit, I went and re-read your post, seems I mis-interpreted it. But I also made my posts to highlight that their is no use being fearful of Google, because they are not by any means the only ones harvesting your data for profit.
So whilst you don't have to use their services, just realise the hypocrisy or the lack of knowledge that many many many others you share your data with are ALSO using it to make money.
 
Another reason why Apple is further and further behind and SHOULD NOT wait a whole year to introduce updates:


This and the Microsoft keyboard with the angled keyboard, is amazing. I just need someone to combine them both.
 
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H2SO4 said:
Yeah I know but I’ve heard it’s nice and something as bad as that periodically, (monthly?), won’t have any lasting damage.
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Never tried one and never likely to either, I mean geez, can you imagine just the oil in it alone. But then I'm not a fan of chip shops in general, I'd rather have something home-cooked that has actual flavour without all of the unnecessary decades old greasy fat.

I remember being in a chippie in Newcastle (UK) a couple of years ago and the walls were practically caked in fat. No thanks, I want to live past 60 ;)
 
TrueBlou said:
Never tried one and never likely to either, I mean geez, can you imagine just the oil in it alone. But then I'm not a fan of chip shops in general, I'd rather have something home-cooked that has actual flavour without all of the unnecessary decades old greasy fat.

I remember being in a chippie in Newcastle (UK) a couple of years ago and the walls were practically caked in fat. No thanks, I want to live past 60 ;)
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LOL, Ok. Well without wanting to get to much off topic. I love to eat. LOVE to eat, and drink. All sorts of things - junk food and healthy stuff as long as I like the taste. I’m lucky enough for it not too have hit my waistline to badly.
 
H2SO4 said:
LOL, Ok. Well without wanting to get to much off topic. I love to eat. LOVE to eat, and drink. All sorts of things - junk food and healthy stuff as long as I like the taste. I’m lucky enough for it not to have hit my waistline to badly.
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Think yourself lucky. I love food too and before I hit 40 I couldn't seem to put weight on so I ate whatever I liked. But I suppose I'm considerably less active now than I was before my accident, got a lot to answer for that bloody thing.
 
apolloa said:
As for this keyboard, meh, I find Apples own keyboard is the best if any mobile device! Android still lags a lot in this area and I would imagine so will this new Google one.
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Imagine? Meh? How can you make that claim before even trying it out? That's like reviewing a book or movie before reading or seeing it!
 
I can easily search Google in safari...i don't want this keyboard so it can steal my data....
 
GBoard is awesome.

The paranoid here are hilarious.


jamesrick80 said:
I can easily search Google in safari...i don't want this keyboard so it can steal my data....
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Please tell me you are trolling and really not this silly?

You don't want Google to "steal your data" while you're typing, so .. you use google in Safari and now they can't "steal" what you're typing them?
 
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The paranoia about Google every time an article related to them comes up is really astounding.

OMG, they might see my passwords! To what? Your porn sites? What do you think Google is going to do with those? I use Google for everything...search, Android phone, Gmail, maps, photos....and guess what? No problem. Nothing bad or sinister has happened.
 
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im surprised everyone here doesnt compile aosp from source with no gapps using nexus devices versus using closed source ios iphones if they really want to know what is always going on
 
ArtOfWarfare said:
Google puts you in a bubble. Your results are not the results everyone else gets. The third results for you are the 30th for someone else. If your product isn't your 1st result on Google, you have a major problem, because Google personalized the results for you based on the 600+ pages of information they know about you. If they don't think you want to see your own website when you search for it, they probably don't think anybody ever wants to see it.

http://dontbubble.us/
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Let's leave the SEO knowledge to the online marketeers shall we?
 
Looks really good actually, just a shame it's US only. I don't understand why they do that... Surely they could just make it English speaking countries only..
 
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