Nearby Connections 2.0: offline high bandwidth peer to peer device communication

Re:Nearby Connections 2.0: offline high bandwidth peer to pe... by Groxx on Monday July 31, 2017 @11:04PM (#14897611)

The vast majority of which have no reason to be tied to Play, they're just (ab)using Play to auto-install and auto-update it everywhere. An effective way around carrier update delays, to be sure, but far from the only option.

It could've been an app. Or more than one. And then there could've been competition. Instead it's baked into a monster install that does who-knows-what when it invisibly updates itself.

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Re:Nearby Connections 2.0: offline high bandwidth peer to pe... by nevi-me on Monday July 31, 2017 @11:20PM (#14897668)

That's fair criticism, but "we" are likely to complain that "Google is installing many apps, and I don't know what they're doing". What also happens when I install "Core" v11.0.4, and then "Cast" doesn't install? Or the user stumbles upon "PubSub", and removes updates?

I'm inclined to think this is an all or nothing here, but since we don't have access to the source, I won't know how Google has implemented Play Services.

Can you kindly give an example of which APIs shouldn't be tied to Play though? I've never thought about it.

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