[mythtv-users] What's the deal with Kodi?

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Fri, 2015-05-22 at 16:34 +0100, Damian wrote:

> I should have expanded on my 'big brother' comment. Of course they are 
> 'all the same'.

What is "they all" and what do you mean they are the same?

> It's also the 'monopoly' aspect that bothers me.

What "monopoly"?

> And 
> google are the masters of this.

Why are you conflating Google and Android still?  Yes, Google are the
primary maintainers of it but it is Open Source and available from
others like Cyanogen[mod].

> If I thoughtlessly took the 'easy route', I'd use google for search, 
> android os's, google maps, google calendar, gmail, google docs etc etc etc.

Again, you can have an Android device completely devoid of Google if
that's what you want.

> I wouldn't trust a democratically elected government enough to willingly 
> give them all of that information (I am well aware that they will be 
> getting most of it without my consent). There's no way I'd trust a 
> single company whose motive is profit and pleasing their share holders.

Will you stop already?  Are you not understanding what I am saying when
I say you can have Android without Google?

> I don't know much about Android to be honest. I just know that I 
> fundamentally don't trust google and Android just gives me a bad feeling 
> inside.

So unsubstantiated FUD then.  You really ought to learn about something
before you decide to just hate it summarily.

> Again, not trying to convince anyone else, it's just how I sleep at night.

You are sleeping on falsehoods then.

b.

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