I absolutely agree. I would rather be told the bad news with all the facts than a sugar-coated "oh-we-were-hacked-but-its-not-our-fault-and-you-customers-are-screwed" response.
I don't believe they have 800 million. I think an active account counting as "an account that has logged in within 30 days" is skewing the stats beyond belief.
Why? I'm aware of two people I know who don't have Facebook accounts. My sister who lives in a house bus, and a guy I used to work with whom we used to make tin foil hat jokes about.
Even my 80+ grandmother is on Facebook and she doesn't even own a computer, but she check it every week at her friends house. And get this she is thinking of getting a computer to use Facebook (and find recipes and knitting patterns).
Most people I know check Facebook every hour or some leave it open all day long. Many have IM hooked up so they can chat at will. So login rates are far as I'm aware are very high for the average person. I do hear the odd person who doesn't log in very often but I can stereotype them as grumpy sys admins who tend to hate everything and probably don't have the critical mass of friends to make facebook useful anyway. Because in reality it is a useless service if you aren't a people person.
Anyway thats a penetration level I can barely fathom, and from what I understand my experience is actual the norm and not the exception.
If you look at the metrics people pull out every so often, Facebook alone is larger than the entire internet a decade ago. One website is BIGGER than everything. How ridiculous is that? to be that big they could only do it with numbers which analysts are suggesting.
I got my Logitech Revue as part of a promotion by Google, and I agree with you -- I'm glad I didn't pay for it.
It just didn't do anything spectacular or exciting. The browser is cool, but I always have my iPad 2 with me at the sofa so it was rendered pretty much useless. Also, no apps (until now, if Logitech updates).
Gonna be brutally honest here, those pricing plans are shit. Allow me to log in for an unlimited amount of time and lower the price a bit, and we'll talk.
I really don't think it's asking to much. Maybe they could charge a smaller amount for command line/shell only access.
The premium you're paying here seems like it's just to stream the OSX GUI over the RDP protocol.
I think everyone hates Facebook because of their privacy and data mining issues, and I'm inclined to agree with those people. Facebook did sell out in that way, and I think even Steve Jobs knew that. But Zuckerberg didn't sell his company to Microsoft so maybe that's what Jobs meant.
I really hate how Facebook killed the competition because there's no place to go besides G+, and that seems to be targeting a different audience than Facebook. :(
Just because a company is big doesn't mean it has to sell out and stop caring about user privacy.
