I almost couldn’t believe that apps would be allowed to communicate user data to FB post GDPR, so I grabbed a couple of the mentioned apps, installed a firewall apps and sure as anything - most of them tried to communicate with a Facebook server before the user was asked anything and nearly always as soon as the app was opened!Īpple: you need to improve file management/importing/syncing and cut prices by 20%. The recent analysis of Android apps sending data to Facebook whether or not you have a FB account makes me cringe - as do the recent iDevice prices and Apple’s continued arrogance. On Android, users are empowered but left with buggy and ugly apps, insecurities and with next to zero privacy rights if they want it’s full potential (root and Google). iOS is undoubtedly safer but constantly ties down the user and bleeds them dry financially - what you get for your life savings though is a secure and mostly bug free smooth experience. Not that I am saying that the iOS ecosystem is any less monstrous, but for completely different reasons. But Android is, for lack of a better description, a real monstrosity of an ecosystem on top of something great. Sync music via Syncthing and play in Phonograph for example.īut it’s a trade off: I don’t trust the security of Android. on Android, I can grab files from anywhere, transfer them by any means, store them in any location and open them in any app. So what are the alternatives? A cloud player? No. Having to boot a workstation, import to iTunes then sync is, quite frankly, very sucky and not something I would expect from the “worlds most advanced mobile operating system”. chucking a quick couple of movies or some music on my pad is needlessly laborious and time consuming. For example - offline viewing of media ie. the lack of apps being able to ‘just access’ data is a frustration I work around daily. It’s a crying shame that Apple feel the need to restrict iOS so much. I know this is an old issue, but after the recent privacy concerns with Android apps breaching user data to FB even if you don’t have a FB account, I feel I should comment. cons: protocols standardized thus hard to change when necessary). And an independent implementation of the protocol has arguably as much pros as its cons (e.g. We barely interact with the GUI, since once it is set up, the GUI is (mostly, except for things like backups) out of the way and all that matters are files. I am not quite sure how much we would gain from a native gui implementation or a native protocol implementation. And since syncthing already has a web interface, we may be able to provide the UI wrapped in a WebView-like app or (can you host local sites from 127.0.0.1 in iOS?) even directly from the browser. I wonder if anyone have tried compiling syncthing to C compatible ABI and test it from within a thin C (or even Objective-C) wrapper. Anyway, this does seem like a very plausible approach, as opposed to re-implementing the protocol in another language for another platform. Maybe it has been mentioned but I missed it. Oh, I have never seen this option in any of the forums or threads on this topic before.
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