Re:Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
by est31 on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @10:58AM
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MTP is super buggy tho. Sometimes I can get it to work, sometimes I can't. Thought it was the fault of GNU/Linux on the desktop, but I've heard similar stories from Windows users. Most people I've spoken to are just annoyed about MTP.
As a possible explanation for this issue, I think that if you use the internet to share data, it's more likely that Google makes money from some of the interactions (either via ads in the app or via play store tax or idk because the service is hosted in GCP or whatever) than if you used an internet-free method, so Google doesn't prioritize bugfixes that would hurt their revenue. Edit: would love to be proven wrong though!
As a possible explanation for this issue, I think that if you use the internet to share data, it's more likely that Google makes money from some of the interactions (either via ads in the app or via play store tax or idk because the service is hosted in GCP or whatever) than if you used an internet-free method, so Google doesn't prioritize bugfixes that would hurt their revenue. Edit: would love to be proven wrong though!