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I carry a burner Android just for this feature. Great for sharing with my iPhone and iPad on a flight.

Credit unions rely entirely on third parties for their infrastructure. FIS, Fiserv.

Doubt Goldman Sachs can’t see it either - would make dispute handling and fraud prevention near impossible.

Early Warning Services already has your detailed bank history. This does have some benefits, like fraud prevention. Request a copy at https://www.earlywarning.com/consumer-information

Apple has a patent on it: https://www.patentlyapple.com/2022/10/apple-invents-a-new-he...

Many examples, e.g. https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/31/16072786/amazon-blu-suspe.... “In November 2016, security firm Kryptowire detected pre-loaded remote surveillance software on BLU phones sold online through Amazon and Best Buy. In August 2017, Amazon pulled BLU Products from its website over security vulnerabilities that resulted in BLU consumer user data being covertly sent to China.”

I never knew this existed. With OneNote for Mac not supporting local or encrypted notebooks, I'll be trying out Outline.

There still are a lot of bumps. Their billing systems remain a mess, especially trying to use it on an iPad (if I don't disable wi-fi, it asks me for the iPad's phone number). I really wanted to use T-Mobile to support their free 200mb offer, but it's a mess to sign-up for extra data.

My final reason for leaving -- even though they suffered many high profile password hacks in the past, they still store them as clear-text and email it to you when doing a password reset.

It's likely much more than two databases. Most MSOs outsource billing and customer service to companies like Convergent. It's a mess of legacy regions and products with different vendors involved. Try troubleshooting phone number porting -- that goes through Accenture.

You can take one of my bills -- I receive two Ecobills and a paper bill!

I jailbreak for tethering and running wifi-only apps on cellular.

Looks like an excellent target for phishing attacks!

I believe that Amazon Payments is the only system that lets you pay someone with a credit card, although it's limited to $1,000/month (otherwise people abuse it, sending cash to each other to rack up points on their credit cards).

Daring or repeating history? Windows NT was ported to a host of platforms -- DEC Alpha, MIPS, PowerPC, and Itanium. None have gained substantial traction.

Had they been daring, the desktop would have been removed. Instead, Metro feels like a reincarnation of Apple's At Ease.

RT could have had a chance, but beyond the crayon colors, I believe the root cause was the bland, simple Metro interface. The textures, shadows and other elements of iOS 1 - 6 are engaging in a way that the flat interface is not. Side-by-side I'm always more compelled to pick up my iOS 6 phone over the iOS 7 phone. Or the flat-before-it-was-cool Blackberry.

When I visit a museum, people spend less time at simple modern art pieces. When I turn on pop radio, heavy layered beats dominate.

I might have bought an RT tablet if didn't feel like the Ikea of tablets.

The reputation in the US: a company that runs infomercials. The "fill the room with sound" ads are on par with Snuggie and Big Mouth Billy Bass.

Shure is fantastic. I've owned countless pairs across various price levels and have never been disappointed. While I find that their top of the line SE535 break easily at the gym, their warranty service has been exception and lighting quick -- usually next day servicing.

You have obviously never experienced the pain of a prolonged car trip with Bose. I never knew what ear fatigue was prior to the unfortunate experience of owning Bose car audio.

Thankfully, most car manufacturers have stopped using Bose.

Also relevant -- an MD-80 losing it's tail during a test flight after a hard landing: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SXVmsm_pmUo

Money now has an expiration date, like air miles?

I think the best would have been learning your tomorrow/today pattern and monitoring your use of the phone. For example, a "common" person will continue to use to tomorrow post-midnight until they have slept. The phone should monitor for lack of movement and use over 4-6 hours to identify a sleep schedule that is the person's day divider (patent pending!).

Same experience. I've also heard from many that after the sale, the buyer complains about an issue to PayPal and is able to get their money back.

Can you elaborate on how market inefficiency is the issue? It seems others have tried similar schemes (Virgin America ran a private jet website with the same intentions), or attempted to open the market through smaller "taxi" planes (Embraer Phenom) or wholly regional airlines (Independence Air), but the cost of fuel and labor prevented increased adoption.

The private jet market is scheduled at the last minute and filling unused seats (or return segments) seems to be quite challenging, even if offered as one way last minute deals to consumers. Is the goal to have a Southwest like "Ding" fare alert for subscribers?

Curious -- why so? Reviews that I read seemed to indicate that the mail application was quite weak (e.g. can't even drag and drop mail into folders).

Without criticism, nothing will improve.

Visiting their store feels like you've stepped into a Halloween horror movie.

The staff must be forced to take lithium at the start of each shift. At the Microsoft store in Chicago, it's not only empty and in the least 'cool' part of the city (distant suburbs), but the constant demos felt like I was a victim in a Saw movie. I had to enthusiastically play a Kinect game... or else.

Amazon does not breakout revenue for AWS -- it's grouped into the "Other" category. Analysts estimate it could be nearing a $1B business, but Amazon has a yearly revenue exceeding $48B. I don't think the stock market places much value on AWS today, so a slowdown should not greatly impact the stock (if the market did, we would have seen the stock decline during AWS outages).

AT&T's is much more invasive -- it is across all of their telecom platforms (DSL, TV, wireless, wifi, etc). They also will log location information for advertising: http://www.att.com/gen/privacy-policy?pid=2506

You can find more information from their AdWorks division: http://adworks.att.com/press.html

If they were to begin network sniffing, they could potentially build powerful user profiles that would be more valuable than Facebook's data (and truly "frictionless"). Your passive internet browsing would start influencing the commercials you see on TV.

Glad to see the advertising dollars from Honey Boo Boo went towards something useful!

Bing Maps was the one of the first alternative maps I downloaded after the install of iOS 6. Unfortunately, the application is not ready for prime time -- the tiles are not retina, the UI is a mashup of formerly-known-as-Metro elements, and swoosh/zoom animations are overused, like a bad PowerPoint deck.

If Bing released it with retina tiles and a native iOS UI, I think they could win significant market share. It could create a halo product that might make me more inclined to use and think positively of other Bing services.

> There is one way Apple's maps already surpass Google's: no advertising.

For now. Let's not forgot Apple tried to push full screen, "interactive" iAds. While banners ads have been more popular, the extra screen real estate on the iPhone 5 could eventually become devoted to ads.

The lack of including public transit routing was a huge miss -- the "Designed in California", everyone has a car confused the decision making.

I've found the Embark transit applications to be a great alternative (at least for Chicago). It doesn't make up for other missing features like Street View, but you'd be surprised how many users did not even know those features existed.

Guilty -- saw Chicago in the headline, had to click.