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[Mitchell Reese <dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For the record, I'm one of the many users trying to extricate myself from Google. I don't understand the drive to here people towards Google's servers when Ubuntu Touch can offer great alternatives. Lots of people prefer Owncloud, and use it successfully.

Mitchell


On 4 April 2016 6:12:53 PM AEST, Alan Bell <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>
>On 02/04/16 17:25, Rodney Dawes wrote:
>> Not everyone wants to maintain their own server.
>but some people do! The phone project seems to be very very focussed on
>
>not taking any advantage of the fact that users might run Ubuntu 
>desktops and servers and maybe a bunch of phones.
>>   The part of ownCloud
>> which is problematic as a general solution is the "own" part. Google,
>> Dropbox, iCloud, etc… do not provide compatibility with owncloud, so
>> while it theoretically allows some of us to have some level of sync,
>it
>> doesn't solve all the problems, and doesn't enable things for all.
>but it does enable things for people who buy into the concept of Free 
>software and want their infrastructure to be Free software that works 
>together. This is a perfectly good target niche.
>>
>> Note of course, that Google contacts/calendar sync is already on the
>> phone, and has been for a very long time now, so if Google is an
>> acceptable place for storing those things, it can be used (with some
>> small caveats, as it seems only default contacts/calendar are synced,
>> so alternate/subscribed calendars on Google don't get seem to be
>> exposed).
>working on the assumption that people are using Google to run all their
>
>stuff means that the phone is competing head to head with Android on 
>Google's playing field. It isn't necessarily wrong to support those 
>users, and yes, they might be a numerically large target, however there
>
>is a wide open opportunity to change the rules of the game and go a 
>different way.
>
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