Thread: NOKIA Rejected Android in Favor of M$ - Eric Schmidt
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jaimex2 is offline jaimex2
2011-02-16 , 07:58
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Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
Mhm... I chose Maemo because I wanted freedom. Free software, yes, but also the freedom *not* to give away my personal data.

The more I think of it, the more I believe that the freedom to keep data to myself, not having to sign up to some cloud service or having to use a certain account, is even more important than the fact that some version of the OS on my phone is open source at some stage in development.
I don't understand the data mining at all. Why is it so valuable to be able to make Google rich and why do users stay away from it. I've never gotten an add that targets me personally in any way, what else can this information be used for?

That said I have never actually put any genuine information on the internet at all, I basically have a fake person alias online when signing up for anything that goes to my "bs" email account, my real email gets hosted on my domain and that ends that. Aside from any location services there isn't much to mine from my usage... or is there?