{"id":182664,"date":"2015-07-08T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/07\/08\/why-not-to-trust-online-apps\/"},"modified":"2015-07-08T20:12:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T01:12:00","slug":"why-not-to-trust-online-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/07\/08\/why-not-to-trust-online-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Not to Trust Online Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to users having very little recourse when a vendor creates an update that is worse than its predecessor,<sup>*<\/sup> it also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2015\/07\/08\/office_365_prices_rise\/\">leaves you at the mercy of a vendor who can jack up the licensing fees when you are hooked<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Microsoft looks to have increased the price it will charge for Office 365 in the Euro-zone, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Australia, and Canada.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Nicole Sheridan, who works and blogs for Irish distributor MicroWarehouse, has posted a Microsoft missive on the price rises. She also quotes from a Microsoft communiqu\u00e9 that says the price rises are justifiable because \u201ccloud services are rapidly evolving, and Microsoft is adding significant value to our products.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The translation from Microflaccid speak is as follows, &#8220;We are raising prices for the same reason that dogs lick their own genitals:&nbsp; Because they can.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Like when Google, who is particularly awful about retrograde &#8220;upgrades&#8221; removed the ability to save map locations to contacts when they went to version 7.<\/span><sup>\u2020<\/sup><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">BTW, as of version 9, <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">they have still left what was an essential feature out of maps<\/span><\/b>.<\/span><sup>\u2021<\/sup><br \/><sup>\u2021<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">The rat-f%$#s who did this should be the first bunch up against the wall when the revolution comes.<\/span><sup>\u03a8<\/sup><br \/><sup>\u03a8<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">BTW, you can get a link to the old version of Google Maps <a href=\"http:\/\/www.androiddrawer.com\/7844\/download-maps-6-14-2-app-apk\/\">here<\/a>.  Just be sure to enable the installation of non Play Store apps, and turn off auto updating for the Maps app.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to users having very little recourse when a vendor creates an update that is worse than its predecessor,* it also leaves you at the mercy of a vendor who can jack up the licensing fees when you are hooked: Microsoft looks to have increased the price it will charge for Office 365 in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,997,989,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-internet","category-software","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}