Smartphones

Enter Sandman: (via ZDNet) Windows Phone 8.1 is officially dead / http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-lays-windows-phone-to-rest/

So what's with that camera? (via BGR) New leaks show us Google’s Pixel 2 phones, and there’s some bad news / http://bgr.com/2017/07/11/google-pixel-2-leaks-colors-and-design/

The news sounds fishy: (via Forbes) Google Leak Reveals Massive Pixel 2 Cancellation / https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2017/06/13/google-pixel-2-xl-cancellation-new-pixel-smartphone/#5f3cf36f3401

Apps collected data? Shocked! Shocked I say! (via Wired) Internet Privacy: 7 out of 10 Smartphone Apps Are Sharing Your Data / http://www.newsweek.com/online-privacy-data-driven-companies-facebook-and-google-have-access-7-out-10-618782

This has no doubt been on Google's agenda for sometime. Call it there desire to un-ring a bell of a failed business plan structure. They had previously thrown Android OS into the wild. Different phone manufactuers gobbled it up. Which worked for a while, but then things began to slide off the rails. Too many flavors of the same ice cream sandwich.