There was a thread about the Cloud, Some don't understand the subtlety of companies and what they are doing in structuring and forming society as a whole. So I wanted to offer this to all to think about one small example of how we will willingly accept our own down fall. All companies do it but Google posing as champions is the most recent and subtle example of good marketing and control. We have a company that's business model is advertising not operating systems, like Microsoft or Apple making a operating system. While Microsoft and Apple do advertising its primary business model is a operating system with marketing now a as a second.
Google/ Android/Chrome was made for Google to have a platform to push their products and make money from advertising. Thats It, if they help all in the end then ok but Google knew that to be number one it had to have something that demanded their products. So it made Android, Chrome to achieve this. Andorid is very popular and below is the reason it was made. But we willingly accept not only cloud the next step but being listened to and marketed to by using these systems. Pretty creative if you ask me, but this is a example of how we use and adopted something without really knowing and WILLINGLY ADOPTED IT. This is how marketers have been allowed into our private lives and why nothing is really private anymore. This is how we in the US will fall and adopt rule under our own self serving convenience. Yet we sit and wonder how did this happen to us?
Google really entered a new area with Android – one that could easily fail. We spoke to Allen Nogee, Research Director of In-Stat's Wireless Technology Group, to ask why Google chose to create Android.
"In the last few years, Apple, Microsoft, Google and Intel have all tried to get heavily into the phone business," he explained, "and if you dig a bit deeper, their motives are all different. So Google is a company that makes its money from advertising, currently mainly from advertising to those that use a desktop or laptop computer.
This is how Google financed the projects that it gives away for free – its revenue from advertising. On a PC, the browser is the gateway to the web, which is why Google, Apple and Microsoft all make browsers and give them away for free.
Android, Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California in October 2003 by Andy Rubin (co-founder of Danger), Rich Miner (co-founder of Wildfire Communications, Inc.), Nick Sears (once VP at T-Mobile),and Chris White (headed design and interface development at WebTV[23]) to develop, in Rubin's words, "smarter mobile devices that are more aware of its owner's location and preferences".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28operating_system%29Android's source code is released by Google under open source licenses, although most Android devices ultimately ship with a combination of open source and proprietary software. Initially developed by Android, Inc., which Google backed financially and later bought in 2005, Android was unveiled in 2007 along with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance—a consortium of hardware, software, and telecommunication companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices.
So when we have personal devices and cannot opt out of advertising and cloud and wonder how our personal information is sent to a company we will know how. I only picked Google its not the only one but it did set the business model and privacy standards in the past years. They are creative well financed and are getting more and more diverse. Their server farms rivals the governments and they have many throughout the country and abroad. If you want advertising on Maps then you have to pay Google. If you want to search with them then you have to accept cookies and advertising. In searches the suggestions are not by accident or random and they have, on social issues, that they dont support skewed the search results. They want to be into everything we do literally and will willingly help so what does it really cost us? On closing, why is GPS location linked to most apps? Why do apps need to know your location when they have nothing to do with location??? Why do all pics put locations on the pics unless you opt out? Turn off cell information for your I phone on most settings and see how many times it reminds you that its off. A major invasion of privacy and at what cost?
This is not a rant against Google its more of a call to action to be more unified and alert to the things that shape our society. To understand what is offered to us in good faith is not always good faith. To see the truth in how companies are patterning our society and we just accept it. They have plenty of money to lobby and bend the ears of Senators and business men alike. We are not to concerned about things as long as we can have a life and get most of what we want. That is why there is a lot of loose ends in government that favors business and those at the top.
