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'Home' devices now 'TOO' smart!!??
Red Squirrel:
My grandparants had a big console TV too, it just kept on working. They only replaced it because they ended up getting a flat screen as a present. But yeah stuff like that was more expensive back in the day but it also lasted. Now everything is cheap, but we pay with it with our privacy, and it breaks within 10 years.
RJSV:
I'm actually getting so pissed, w my ANDROID phone on the ATT scam-line. Swear, if usb connector wears out or something, going to switch out...
Now, my phone 'gives up' on the ole' reliable house wifi, (with the satellite dish symbol, as phone pathetically attempts a regular cell-tower type of connect. So my music / video gets into limbo...; That's how I know.
AND NOW, over on left, is a new icon, an antenna with a question-mark, '?', and right next to the 'ATT'.
What's ATT's beef, you ask? Well, ok those lame-ass un-connects, from usual long working WIFI, that's costing me extra money $$$, as my month long use gets shrunk.
Plus, without sounding so vain: I like my Van Halen, Judgement Day and other songs. Getting to the end of welcome for Google (products), I'm sorry to say.
bd139:
Android has alway been a complete fucking shit show. I lost a week of holiday photos thanks to an Android handset once due to SD corruption after a crash. Also had three of the damn things (HTC, Motorola, Samsung) just drop dead. The Motorola handset died after only 2 weeks and the official repairer in the UK claimed it was water damaged and sent it back with a £200 bill attached.
Switched to Apple. Never a problem since.
PlainName:
A client's wife was with Apple. Dropped her phone down the loo (as you do) and then found none of the photos had made it to iCloud (or whatever it is). Of course, probably have had the same problem with Android, but at least she'd've known at the start that they weren't being backed up so could do something about it.
Not sure why they weren't being stored off-phone - every night the broadband link was brought to its knees by her phone transferring something.
bd139:
My iPhone is IP68. I’d expect it to survive a trip to the porcelain playground :-DD
As for sync it stops if your phone is in low power mode. Lots of people I know run their phones in low power mode all the time because quite frankly they’re either rammed with battery draining shit or have no idea what they are doing. Edit: oh and also their iCloud is universally only the free 5Gb and entirely full of selfies.
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