Here’s some interesting data on mobile device adoption. The iPhone and iPod Touch combined generate 6 times the amount of web traffic than Motorola’s Razr, even though there are more than 6 times the number of Razr’s in circulation.
Goes to show, Steve is right. The software IS the user experience.
Report: iPod touch generates more traffic than most phones | iPod | Macworld.
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Apple, iPhone, iPod Touch, Motorola, Razr, Web
This is sad and shocking all at the same time. Doesn’t anyone in the UK have a right to privacy anymore? I totally get that when I’m in the street in London I am going to be monitored on CCTV cameras, but that’s because I’M IN PUBLIC. Now citizens sitting in their PJs sending email to their buddies over Facebook in the privacy of their own homes can’t expect to enjoy the protection of that privacy?
This seems like yet another massive bite taken out of the ever dwindling civil liberties in the UK. My old homeland is rapidly turning into the spookiest of Orwellian police states. Cameras everywhere, police with the right to stop and search at will, face recognition tracking your every move and now even your email and status updates are up for grabs!
Another aspect of this that I find worrying it that these overly zealous politicos consistently go after things that the average citizen uses but has no control over. It’s quiet surveillance. Would they have the same easy ride is they decided that in addition to storing all your web traffic they were also going to record all your phone calls, or open all your mail and take copies of it? Of course not, but the underlying principle is the same is it not?
Scariest of all is the fact that the UK citizens are not up in arms about all this. I notice a mood of resignation among my UK friends. There’s nothing they can do about it. You could try voting for people who value civil rights instead of the spooks who want to spy on you 24×7.
<shudder>
U.K. to monitor, store all social-network traffic? | Security – CNET News.
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Orwell, Politics, Spooks, Spying, UK, Web
