News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Android Migration. Parent comment

Re:Android Migration by StavrosK on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @06:11AM (#9684941)
Me too, but I don't see this as presumptuous at all. They're trying to make it easy for people who want to migrate from Android. Who can blame them?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Android Migration by ctolsen on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @07:08AM (#9685116)
Those who might want to migrate the other way, perhaps.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Android Migration by taspeotis on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @07:49AM (#9685289)
Samsung has their own software to do this [1].

[1] http://www.samsung.com/au/support/smartswitch/#icloud

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Android Migration by StavrosK on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @07:13AM (#9685135)
https://twitter.com/Stavros/status/608215259153858560
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Android Migration by MCRed on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @07:30AM (#9685195)
That tweet is simply dishonest. Expecting Apple to make a migration assistant to help people move off of its platform is absurd and hypocritical.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Android Migration by StavrosK on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @07:42AM (#9685249)
No, I want to make the migration assistant. How can I access on iOS the same data that Move accesses on Android?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Android Migration by threeseed on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @08:00AM (#9685335)
Ask the user for their iCloud credentials. That would get you documents, photos, mail, contacts, calendars, reminders, bookmarks, notes, passwords and many app settings.

Then it should be just a matter of parsing a bunch of plist files and a few SQLite databases.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Android Migration by comex on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @12:45PM (#9686937)
You can't do it from the device itself, but you can grab all that data over USB if the user has a desktop to sync with...
[ Parent | on HN ]