I like my Android devices all the way back to the G1. I would wager most of you reading this have no idea that the G1 was the very first Android device to go on sale in the United States (possibly the world). Since then, I've gone through variants of the Galaxies and a couple of Nexus tablets. Now, I'm back on the Asus Memo Pad 7 after my Nexus 7 met an unfortunate end.
I like the fresh setting up process but I had assumed that my previoius profile on the Nexus 7 was backed up. It was but when I tried to get that downloaded onto my Memo, it didn't work. That was fine. I still enjoyed the whole set-up, doing a fresh profile and all.
I've used it all weekend and barely touched my iPad Air unless it was to harvest my fruits and vegetables on the Smurf game, do revenges in Star Wars Commander, and send a squadron of level 4 dragons against hapless cities in my clan war in Clash of Clans.
As I started downloading apps from the Play Store, I suddenly realized I went through similar feelings about it: making sure that I only downloaded apps from trusted companies like Google itself, Twitter, Facebook, and Yahoo. I was hesitant about experiment and testing out interesting apps from smaller developers because I fear the security level between that of Android and iOS just are not the same.
Honestly, I don't have the same apprehension I did with Android as on iOS. If anything, I would like to see Google place greater controls over its app reviews and maybe put up some fences around the Android ecosystem while not quite going as far as Apple's walled garden.
Just today, I learned that even if you're able to deny apps access to location datas, some apps can still get that information through usuage and charging of the battery. It's quite brilliant but also scary.
So, I hope that Google will address security issues more frequently and better communicate it with users. Personally, I have no issues with entrusting Google with some of my information. I just like for Google to better protect it even more.
I like the fresh setting up process but I had assumed that my previoius profile on the Nexus 7 was backed up. It was but when I tried to get that downloaded onto my Memo, it didn't work. That was fine. I still enjoyed the whole set-up, doing a fresh profile and all.
I've used it all weekend and barely touched my iPad Air unless it was to harvest my fruits and vegetables on the Smurf game, do revenges in Star Wars Commander, and send a squadron of level 4 dragons against hapless cities in my clan war in Clash of Clans.
As I started downloading apps from the Play Store, I suddenly realized I went through similar feelings about it: making sure that I only downloaded apps from trusted companies like Google itself, Twitter, Facebook, and Yahoo. I was hesitant about experiment and testing out interesting apps from smaller developers because I fear the security level between that of Android and iOS just are not the same.
Honestly, I don't have the same apprehension I did with Android as on iOS. If anything, I would like to see Google place greater controls over its app reviews and maybe put up some fences around the Android ecosystem while not quite going as far as Apple's walled garden.
Just today, I learned that even if you're able to deny apps access to location datas, some apps can still get that information through usuage and charging of the battery. It's quite brilliant but also scary.
So, I hope that Google will address security issues more frequently and better communicate it with users. Personally, I have no issues with entrusting Google with some of my information. I just like for Google to better protect it even more.
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