Re:The Death of External Storage: Where's Google?
by dymk on Friday March 29, 2019 @01:46PM
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That's what you get when you live in a world where most people aren't willing to shell out $1.99 for their apps. Developer time isn't free, and these apps are going to be monetized somehow.
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Re:The Death of External Storage: Where's Google?
by ungzd on Friday March 29, 2019 @02:17PM
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On desktop, we have enormously complex software that's available for free. Why clang does not send all my passwords to shady servers and Blender does not lock my computer and demand ransom? Yet flashlight app which cost 1 man-hour to develop demands "$1.99 or all your private data".
Re:The Death of External Storage: Where's Google?
by def_true_false on Friday March 29, 2019 @02:51PM
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Use F-Droid.
Re:The Death of External Storage: Where's Google?
by UncleMeat on Friday March 29, 2019 @03:56PM
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Clang and Blender are not the norm for desktop software.
Re:The Death of External Storage: Where's Google?
by pjmlp on Saturday March 30, 2019 @02:55AM
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Because Apple, Sony, Google, IBM, ARM, Microsoft,.... have other sources of revenue.
Re:The Death of External Storage: Where's Google?
by w1nst0nsm1th on Friday March 29, 2019 @07:56PM
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I bought Office Suite Pro for 14$ or something on a rooted Android phone. Having access to the private data folder of the app (/data/data/...), I could read the content of a sqlite database created by the app... in which there was reference of all the files from the userspace storage (/sdcard).
According to their privacy policy, they collect all the "data needed in order to improve their services and offering" and "can provide these data to third-party" for that purpose.
Paying for an app on android platform is no assurance the app actually respect your privacy.
Re:The Death of External Storage: Where's Google?
by mixmastamyk on Friday March 29, 2019 @02:18PM
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Paid apps are turning to this as well.