Re: happy birthday to me

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

 > From: http://www.cs..edu/~b
 > Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 19:38:02 -0700
 >
 > So, if I have to live with a non-keyboard phone anyway, I'm tempted by the
 > new iPhone, not because of its spiffy features but because of the new Apple
 > privacy policy, the first good one in the industry.  (Not perfect--not
 > everything is encrypted.  But a big step forward.)  Well, there's one
 > tempting feature: the iPhone's calendar program has an option to not do
 > you favors by changing the times of your appointments when you fly someplace.
 > 
 > OTOH it's, you know, closed software, you need permission from Apple to
 > install software, all that.  So it'd be politically wrong.

Not being a smart phone owner myself, if I had to choose, I would
definitely give a thumbs-down on going with an iPhone.  To get anything
done, you need to jailbreak it and then it just goes downhill from there.
(We do have an iPad.)

At worse, you need to root an Android to get things done, but even that's
rare.

Just my $.02 .