Show HN: HoRNDIS - an Android USB tethering driver for Mac OS X

Re:Show HN: HoRNDIS - an Android USB tethering driver for Ma... by rogerbinns on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @10:44PM (#4786963)

> I wonder why did Google decide to implement mtp as the protocol of choice

They presumably had iTunes in mind as the competition, MTP is a "standard" and many apps already implemented it. Of course it turned out to be 4 steps forward and one step back.

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Re:Show HN: HoRNDIS - an Android USB tethering driver for Ma... by sandGorgon on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @11:39PM (#4787122)

Actually iTunes uses tcp over usb[1] . Which is why this is so counterintuitive - adb already does everything on tcp over usb, why didn't they just use it for everything.

I hope it is not patent encumbered - I'm hoping at least Cyanogenmod can implement it.

[1] rant warning -http://sandeep.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/the-fastest-way-to-t...

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Re:Show HN: HoRNDIS - an Android USB tethering driver for Ma... by rogerbinns on Thursday November 15, 2012 @12:13AM (#4787220)

Apologies for not being clear - I meant iTunes' functionality (sync collections of media) not implementation. Presumably Google thought it would be a neat shortcut using MTP since others would then write the media sync functionality (eg Media Monkey, Double Twist).

It was a good short term choice, but a bad one for the long term. And there is nothing stopping them adding a TCP based sync later.

You'll note however that they prefer you sync to the cloud and then Google handles cloud to your device rather going direct from local machines to the device. See Google Music etc.

Thanks for the rant!

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