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No freaking way -

Hell, no! I leave background data turned off on my phone now because I don't want my apps doing stuff on their own. I sure won't be using anything like this. Just think of the huge amount of data they would be collecting about everybody (and probably selling to the highest bidder). That's the real goal of things like this. The service is just a carrot to get people to let their guard down and give up whatever tiny shred of privacy they have left.
 
it begins simple.. useful.. neat.. helpful.. but slowly, inch by inch..it can take your life over. one person at a time.

you are nothing but a pack animal moving to the instructions from the device you carry.
 
I'm quite happy to use my phone as a portal to information to supplement my ageing and failing memory but I quite like being a quirky, irrational, forgetful, sometimes weird individual human being who makes his own decisions - sometimes good sometimes bad. Never would I want any form of machine (computer or human based) to make my decisions for me. So no thanks.
 
Some of the things were alright and I could see them being useful.. like scanning for a bus pass and telling you the bus won't be there, and then automatically sending a notification to who you're seeing.. maybe if it were a question if you'd like to send it.. I do see some of this happening in a few years. They want to automate anything they can
 
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