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GeneralRe: Need a new phone... Pin
Solo7322-Oct-14 3:40
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Sander Rossel22-Oct-14 8:48
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Sander Rossel22-Oct-14 9:26
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Sander Rossel22-Oct-14 8:56
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Really, do they advertise?
I haven't noticed since I have adblock on my PC and I never got an ad on my phone either.
All I know is they have the best search engine around (Bing isn't even close!), they have a pretty sweet free email service, they have a pretty good browser that does everything I expect from a browser and they are the biggest player in the mobile phone market.
Am I concerned about privacy? They're probably not as bad as Facebook (what I don't have)...
The alternative is Apple (iPhone, Safari, do they have a search engine and email service?), but I'm not an iDiot who buys mediocre overpriced stuff because it has some brand.
And then there's Microsoft, but as said I've had it with my Windows Phone, Bing and IE suck, I'm not sure they take my privacy any more serious than Google, and Outlook is pretty nice, but doesn't offer some of the features I like about Gmail.
Other tech giants like Facebook or Amazon don't offer phones, search engines, free email, a browser... At least not that I know of.

So yeah, I decided to just switch to Google...
To bad there isn't much in terms of alternatives.
It's an OO world.
C#
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
   public void DoWork()
   {
      throw new NotSupportedException();
   }
}

GeneralRe: Need a new phone... Pin
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