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Old 05-31-2008, 01:32 PM
stlbud
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Although I agree it's time for change in the PDA/handheld market. It's a wonder that no one is concerned with Google's motivation. Nothing in life is free and certainly, everything from Google comes at a cost. This is a company that has made it's billions by snooping on people while they surf the web. Are you shocked? surprised? I wonder how many people really understand what Google does to make money. At first they were monitoring people's searches to see what they were interested in. If a large number of people went for a certain topic, they invested in it. The greater the interest the more they made. Now they watch what you do where ever you go so they can push advertising to you. Every web site with Google Ads is another tentacle of Google out to see what you are doing. But advertising is not all they do. They save all this information and keep it in a form that makes _you_ readily identifiable. What do they do with all this information? No one but Google really knows, at this point.

And now they want to _give_ me a phone. Why are they so magnanimous?
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