“Sweeping Privacy under the Rag!” An
appraisal of tablet technologies
Tablet
technologies are synonymous with shaping the digital age. Their reign is soon
eminent and their presence ubiquitous. This is so because they are reasonably
priced; the kindle fire and google nexus 7 for instance are priced at $200.
Secondly they are ultraportable with a sleak and trendy design. Thirdly the
possibility of having everything from access to your email, music, movies and
files at the touch of your fingertips is phenomenal. This combined with the
imminent reign of cloud technology will be the ultimate drive for limitless
possibilities.
OBSERVATIONS
ABOUT TABLETS:
1. They are
internet dependent. It is almost impossible to do anything on a tablet without
the internet. With the kindle fire you get a device heavily dependent on Amazon
book services. With the apple ipad you will without doubt be forced to buy
music, on itunes. Strikingly across all tablet makers be it android tablets,
apple Ios or blackberry Os you will use internet dependent apps which will
either update or rely on the internet entirely to perform their functions. The possibility
of having cloud technology even will aggravate the need for an internet
connection on a tablet for there will be a raging demand to get access to files
that make the tablet experience worthwhile. A fictitious glance at the future,
reveals a time when tablets won’t have storage drives. A user will buy a tablet
with a discounted rate for a storage account of say about 25Gb. This will
necessitate consistent access to the internet.
2. If you’ve bought tablets you will by now
know they are not as cheap as they seem. Take for instance the ipad, Samsung
galaxy normally require subscription to data services which are not cheap. The
apps on these devices are also insanely expensive.
A FUTURE WITHOUT
PRIVACY.
It was recently
discovered that apple, HTC, Samsung and other tablet makers stored users
location information on their devices.
It is also obvious that E-readers such as kindle fires store information about what
you are interested in reading to know how they can serve you better.
In the hands of rogue people, this information would be used to track and
locate you. A reader curiously looking at suicide vests online would be deemed
terrorist and an enemy of the state. These observations have been argued by
learned authors before me and I need not delve deep in these issues.
Aside from the
fact that tablets have been designed to drain you of every penny you have left,
they enable the future of cloud technology. The user will soon voluntarily
offer his information to cloud servers like a cow would voluntarily walk into a
slaughter house. By doing that, Dear prospective user how much of a claim would
you have in seeking the right to privacy?
