Recent content by Old Stoneface

This will be my last post to this thread, and, likely, to AC-at least for a while. (Tho, at this point, I think it unlikely I'll ever come back to Android.) I've made my decision. Good luck, y'all, and thanks for the conversation.

Not so much new concerns as concerns I've had all along finally brought home. I've never trusted Android security very much, but, between using a distribution from a trusted American company, that was fairly vanilla and got regular updates, and sticking to the Play Store, I figured I was...

That's the bottom line, for me. If I cannot trust the device's security, all the bells and whistles on the planet are meaningless. And I do not trust Android security any more :( I'll be putting credit cards in my Apple Wallet, later today. Something I would never have dreamed of doing on...

I do not know. I'm using Gboard (the only Google thing I'm using, any more) and have the "communicate with the mothership" option (aka: "full access") turned off. Good question, though. I've been meaning to look into that. I do know that Apple has their API locked-down a lot more tightly...

I don't think it's fixable. At least not in our lifetimes. They have agreements with the manufacturers and, they, in turn, with the carriers. Of course neither I nor anybody but the parties involved know what's in those agreements, but, making a changes significant enough to resolve Android's...

Security thing, I expect. Data files are sandboxed according to their ostensible use. Not yet. You mean to make it work? Or to (eventually) break it? You don't have to mash on it to activate. Re: Buying Lightning cables... Eh *shrug*. I almost had to do the same when I briefly considered...

Not the way I'd be inclined to spend my money, even if I had money to burn. But, I was brought up by Depression Era parents. I was taught to spend wisely. Thing is: Once-upon-a-time there was a range of decent low-end and mid-range phones that were better than their prices suggested: Motorola...

Re: iOS annoyances... Off the top of my head... Not nearly as much app selection. Oh, there are a lot of apps, but, they all work pretty much the same. For example: Best email app I've found is the native one. None of the others were worth a damn, IMO. (Do they even know what headers are...

"Best" is subjective. It's certainly more flexible. I'm running into annoyances, already, just with the iPad. (No show-stoppers, though.) But, from a perspective of device security: I think it's pretty safe to say it's certainly not "the best." If I was going to stay with Android, Samsung...

Re: What modem the 6S' have... Yup: Qualcomm. I looked it up. Thanks for that info, because I was kinda sorta thinking of holding off for a 7, myself. But, for me, the thing communicating is paramount. So: I added it all up, tripped across a killer deal on a "new open box" iPhone 6S and...

Yeah, that ain't gonna happen :) (Politics) Eh *shrug* I've done the review circuit. We won't be buying new phones and the 7 over the 6S isn't a big upgrade. Plus the 6S is the last with a real headphone jack. The only advantage for us to waiting is a further drop in 6S prices. On the...

I've considered that. Problem is: "Plain old phones" are becoming rare. And there's my keyring... *sigh* In this respect my old Palm Centro was perfect.

It's not just the manufacturers and carriers. This floated by on one of my security feeds, yesterday: Google Won’t Fix a Flaw Used by 74% of Ransomware Until the Release of Android O Meanwhile, the only iOS vulnerability of note was a mess-up on Apple's part wrt backups to iCloud. They...

No need to apologize. It's good info. In my particular case it's probably not going to change my course, though. For one: The only thing out of all those that really matters is possibly the iMessage bit. And perhaps the keyboard. Even with those, the bottom line remains, for me, that I no...

Ohhh... After playing with an iPad we bought over the weekend, I know there are a lot of things I'm going to miss if we jump :( Nonetheless: Jump we probably will. I imagine we'll eventually get used to it.