nobbyclark

Has there been a model of consumer behavior related to personal computing where security played a major part? Yes - anti-virus software on Windows.

That's not an entirely healthy example but it does show it is possible to make consumers take topics like security and privacy seriously.

The issue right now is there aren't enough voices telling them how serious these topics are.

Sadly this type of response seems to be common amongst those that do get it. "Whatever. Most people don't care anyway."

If you look at the reaction of those 99% to Apple planting a U2 album on their phone, you see an angry response when people are made aware...

> Technology can help create newer, more engaging distractions.

Watching how people react to the Occulus, "OMG it's sooo real!" I can't help thinking how badly screwed we are as a species when it goes mainstream. FarmVille addiction, World of Warcraft will look like a walk in the park to Occulus addicts who no longer know or care what reality is. Perhaps I'm just overly pessimistic

As smart creatives I dont think we're the target audience but rather decision makers at established businesses who are seeing their markets getting disrupted.

Yes. And put together in even less time than JavaScript 1.0

How do you know that the app published on the App Store is the same one you have the source code for? Can't I can just give you some source code then release something else entirely?

The real pain point with E-mail is we're all drowning in it.

His lack of commentary speaks loudly.

gs.com > gmail.com > nsa.gov > irs.gov who will love to see those accounts

IMO the silently majority is tired of a panopticon of "look it me now" social services who's main use case is massaging users egos.

Google should start over, Android-first (instead of web -first) and make the phone Addressbook / Google Contacts the focal point for everything social. Look at WhatsApp - it does exactly this - your phone number is your ID and your contacts is your social graph; how you interact with them - who you call, message etc and when / where you do it - these are your circles

Meanwhile if you look at the direction Apple is going, eg new APIs for iCloud eg fingerprint authentication, new APIs for foto management / sharing etc etc. they look about ready to pounce on the whole of social...

Sounds like a similar POV as those that believe security by obscurity is adequate.

But isn't it the case that anything we're capable of measuring here, given the relatively short available sample of data we'd be able to obtain (decades), would be inside any margin of error when comparing that to the age of the universe (13.8 billion years according to Big Bang)?

> I just don't understand how it even gets developed in the first place, if they don't have a small team to continue working on it post-release.

From talking to PMs at Google, they have exactly this problem. Engineers are free to pick and choose what they work on.As soon as a product is released, hits "1.0", and the engineers have claimed whatever kudos they can, they move on to the "next big thing", leaving the PM alone with the product. That leads to situations where PMs can't even get basics like localizations to specifics countries / languages.