* Posts by davidct

2 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Nov 2014

French data watchdog dishes out largest GDPR fine yet: Google ordered to hand over €50m

davidct

Re: Well that took long enough.

Or just don't be too worried about it if you've got nothing to hide. You're going to see ads, so why not see the ones that are appropriate to you? Use your Android phone. Like using Chrome and having your extensions, history, autofill etc follow you to any device.

Or you could be really naive and think you'll get all these things for free with no company having a business model to make the money to support these services.

The last PC replacement cycle is about to start turning

davidct

Businesses don't work like that

"The desktop has been dead for some years, resurrected to an afterlife of video editing and CAD."

That's quite simply not true. Look at most businesses, educational establishments and government and you'll see desktops, and the purchase of them continues. There's no reason for a callcentre to give laptops or other mobile devices to its telephone agents, whilst there's every reason not to. What about staff whose job it is to be office based and process documents? A fixed desktop is by far the most cost-effective and efficient way to have these staff complete their work. Whilst schools continue to move to mobile devices for staff and students, there are tasks far better suited to desktops. Equally there are schools where mobile devices aren't an option (cost, damage, theft, forgetfulness), so robust and secured desktops are put in place.

The author needs to think about users outside of the IT sphere, of users who don't have the knowledge or desire to use mobile, and of companies and establishments who have no need to change to mobile devices.