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 Wife has asked for an iPad for her birthday. I did my best Edward Tattsyrup voice - "This is an A... 
 @d4b81373 I get that reluctance, but where IOS outshines Android is exactly the use case of tablets.  It isn’t even close.

You don’t have to go all in on the walled garden. 
 #privacy #smart #tech 

this is why i rarely load apps for services or devices, with a web portal... 
 @e7b4518c Yep!  I run all those little IoT and TV boxes on their own VLAN, far away from everything else with tight controls on where they can go on the internet.

As far as my phone, "there's an app for that!".  Not on my phone there isn't, apps can not be trusted near my contacts, email and messages.  

We've come so far from the virtual beer app days, the innocence and trust is long long gone.