Re:Project Fi by Google
by Dylan16807 on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @03:10PM
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Well the real question is "Does it increase radio power usage more than a couple percent?", not whether it literally takes a single joule.
Also the answer could be no! Transferring to a better connection can let you run the radio at lower power.
Re:Project Fi by Google
by yellowapple on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @02:59PM
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My point is that Google, of all companies, should be grown-up-enough to be able to resist the temptation to feed its users PR non-answers. Google's supposed to be bucking trends, "Do[ing] No Evil(TM)", etc.; they've set a higher standard and they're not meeting it.
Re:Project Fi by Google
by ForHackernews on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @03:32PM
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C'mon, "Do[ing] No Evil(TM)" is itself a PR non-answer to explain why we shouldn't be worried about their dangerous centralization of data and infrastructure.
At Microsoft (and I'm sure at Google), there was an internal "rude FAQ" that was full of these answers. I felt it a shame we couldn't just publish that, instead.
That Google is long gone.
Then why have it on the FAQ?
Do you really need a "yes" there? I think it is pretty normal to have a stupid PR response there -- of course the answer is "yes". There is no other way.