Re: Snowden triggers flood of Crapware [was: Gruveo, more secure skype?]

On 2014-07-24, 14:55, rysiek wrote:

At the same time I find that the "runs on smartphones" rule actually does improve them, simply because "runs on smartphone" is a buzzword. It's oft-used today as a marketing ploy, and when I see it my "snakeoil sense" is actually tingling.

So if I mention to you that a certain app just happens to run on a smartphone, your Spidey-sense would be tingling, no matter if the app has had excellent threat modelling, code audit etc? Stephan --