Soon enough no doubt!

No that comes second when the techology needs a kick up the arse!

There's only one area of the entertainment industry that really knows how to boost tech take-up like no other!

.....or 'I Shot an Arrow into the Air' where they simply crash land back on Earth after 100 years in deep-sleep, believing they've made it to another planet?

Every cloud...

Keeps a lot of people in full time work does all that fannying around created by short-sighted PHBs!

@Craigness

Look the bright side, people with a bit more nous will wait for the manufacturers of these "copies" to get desperate and drop the prices. Could do with a nice dual-code "Andy" tablet at half the current price they're going for!

As you don't waste time stating the obvious ( ie, banging on about Adblock to fight the FB menace, etc ) you had time to reply to the poster above. We can only assume you had several seconds to spare between your umpteen sexual conquests to come back to grace us, spend time reading your own posts and reply to them!

@19:20

Sorry but were mostly scientists and techies on this site and from an early age we've been taught to never believe what you read, see or hear at face value, prove it.

When some dopey sod comes out with a a load twaddle about "reaching through the veil" and "Ohh, does anyone here have a brother or sister?" or "I'm getting something, is there a Mr Smith in the audience tonight?", I have to question the validity of such a comedy act.

Best psychic I've ever seen was Clinton Baptiste on Phoenix Nights, probably the most genuine I've ever seen in my life!

I seem to recall a porn film with a title something like that, nice lighting and furnishings if I remember correctly.

@Alain Williams

Be reasonable!

BT, please attempt to provide a basic working infrastructure that even a second-year CS Uni student could manage to put together in his spare time plus some vague assemblance of customer care. One that involves actually getting to speak to someone human within 5 minutes of calling the help line and who doesn't simply fob you off with, "Sorry, can't help you with that, call such and such on this number I'll give you."!!!

@Owen Carter

Sorry mate but the only reason the shit is in any of these market places is 'cos fucking idiots buy it! Market forces seem to break down in these online Fart-App festivals. In any normal business the shit is pushed down so far that the punters never get to see it but in these places it floats right to the top!

I only use about a dozen apps at most so quite frankly so long as I can find half decent apps that do 90% of what I need without a load of shitty advertising and crashing, I'm happy. It's the idiots who think a digitised sound of a cow farting is actually funny, most of us got over that when we first found our old 8bit micros could do very basic digital capturing.

You only have to read the reviews of some POS app to know there is one born every minute. The description is usually bloody obvious to describe the app as an utter waste of space. You then read the reviews by some arseholes complaining that is £1.99 was wasted on something that it was so bloody obvious it was a take on you wonder how they managed to even find the on switch on their mobiles! Nope 'cos it appears reading and comprehension are lost arts. Just spend an extra 30 seconds reading and they might no get fleeced.

Mobile app markets back up the old adage, "Fool and his money are soon parted!".

Yep, use it on my Android mobile. Not stunning but does the job quite nicely and handles M3U playlists properly unlike the free, supplied music player.

Why stop at a day!

A whole week!

That would separate "them wot lerns stuff proper from them wot don't"!

@Doogie1

Joke or not, how old are you? Does your Mum know you've been using her PC?

Mark me down for one of each in that case!

You see Portillo that's my data there, about me and the nasty diseases I managed to catch as a spotty, stupid, hormone driven teenager. That's my meteoric rise up the obesity charts as I settled down and into an easy life or beer, chips and TV, before heading back down to a sensible weight. That's my records about the orifices I've had inspected in the name of finding what nasty little thing has decided to grow inside me this decade!

So why don't you first go ask BUPA for all their data, and I mean ALL their data including you lot in the house and all your boardroom, networked mates and when they've all had their data pawed and poured over, then I might think about supplying mine until then BUGGER OFF!

I was wondering that surely this sort thing must have a "media cleaning" routine if it goes out of contact for more than a certain amount of time, wipe all ordnance it has collected so far to avoid it falling into enemy hands?

Uncle Albert!

"It was so cold one day that the flame on my lighter froze!"

A sad loss

Borders was my one refuge from the nightmare shopping trips while out with my beloved!

I knew I could cope with visits to the high street clothes shops with my Missus as I knew I would get an hour or two to spend in Borders browsing and reading at the end of a hard Saturday's footwork.

@Beau

That's the new Ubuntu ad slogan nailed!

Granted but not all of us have the 500 sovs upfront for the latest Apple or Samsung smartphone, easier to add £150 quid on the price and pay on the tick for the next 2 years!

A great man once said, "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance!"

"it's never been demonstrated that this software logs anything significant"

Granted that's true but can you, for a second, imagine how much all that sort of diag type info would be worth to marketing companies? Imagine the millions of people walking about with mobiles in just the US alone, all giving just a enough info to allow targetted advertising to be a worthwhile reality? Sickening is what that thought is. However I can imagine a few marketing execs wetting their seats at the prospect of the huge pay-day that sort of info could fetch!

That's why it needs to come out, so others don't get ideas about collecting our data without letting us know first, this sort of shitty "app" needs destroying BEFORE people get any more stupid ideas.

You do realise most of us would have stopped reading the second we hit the word, "jeluos"?

You've have, in two short and sweet paragraphs, completely destroyed my last vestige of hope for the future of humanity!

I'm off down the pub to drink several pints of London Pride, until this world makes some sort of sense again!

Well they are both huge flipping, freaking, freako, freakzoids from planets other than Earth!

Any idea how much that info is worth to companies? Probably enough to buy yourself a small country somewhere south of the equator!

The phone company takes the hit on that data, you don't have worry about it. The phone company and IQ then split the dirty money between them by selling you and your info down the Swanee!

To borrow from a well known Queensryche song,

"Fighting fire with empty words,

While the banks get fat,

And the poor stay poor.

The rich get rich,

And the Gov gets paid,

To look away as the one percent rules Britannia."

@Morg

Jesus mate it's no real wonder people see coders as backroom geeks with delusions of grandeur when you spout such utter bollocks it would make Tony Blair say, "Jesus that's a shed load of utter bollocks and I know about spouting utter bollocks!".