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05:17 | 03-10-2011 | Amazon, Google, Privacy | No Comments
вообще, браузер Silk обещает нам много интересного:
As <...> Joe Brockmeier and Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols have illustrated, the privacy concerns are great. Using EC2 as a web proxy will greatly speed things up, sure, but it will also allow Amazon to monitor your individual browsing habits. They say the data will be in aggregate form, but I have to wonder how that will work, since location-based services like Yelp and Latitude will need some sort of unique ID to figure out where you are.
Vaughan-Nichols raises the most chilling scenario: with your history on EC2 servers, any law enforcement agency with a warrant can see your browsing history without actually accessing your machine.
такая вот неожиданная конкуренция на рынке Старших братьев. что ж, неудивителен тогда и ответ Google:
Google’s reaction to Kindle Fire speaks volumes about its goals for Android. Kindle Fire is based on Android, and will run Android applications. Android has been struggling in the tablet space, so you’d expect that Google would be delighted to have Amazon on the Android bandwagon. But you’d be wrong. Let’s look at the press release Google issued today to welcome Amazon to the Android family. Wait a minute, there is no press release. Okay, so let’s look on the Google blog. Nothing at all. Maybe a tweet from Andy Rubin?[1] Dead silence.
ну, и в остальном тоже занимательное положение складывается, тоже конкуренция решений:
Companies trying to sell tablets against Apple were already suffering from slow sales. Now instead of just being pounded by the iPad hammer, they’ve been undercut by the Kindle anvil. For most of them, there’s no place to go.
повеселимся.
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[1] — how about this kind of openness, Andy?