ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Darren Hoyland <darren.hoyland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If it were up to me, I would just get syncthing working on the phone
(there's an app but it's just a prrof of concept) and then relaunch U1
as a branded front end that uses syncthing behind the scenes.

Canonical could then charge people by the MB to store things on a cloud.

Then you could specifiy which folders would be synchronised, thus
dodging the using up too much space issue (you could also have a
setting to only use wifi if you're worried about eating data all the
time).

Other than the upfront cost involved in writing the UI, the app and
contributing a few bits and bobs to syncthing if necessary, the
company wouldn't need to do anything else.

Of course, I'm not a business guy and it's most likely that I'm
totally wrong and it would involve a lot more work than that.

DISCLAIMER: I really like syncthing :-P

On 1 April 2016 at 23:34, Wayne Ward <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I just read a post before about the sync stuff
> I agree that the system should now have a cloud sync option without the
> messing about with rsync and messy owncloud etc
> why did they drop ubuntu one?
> it worked for one and people like me are prepared to pay for space...
> like other platforms you should be able to log in and sync
> data
> music
> calendars
> contacts
> bookmarks
> tasks
> app data
>
> including back up if required..
>
> people get 2 gig free and of course they need more so pay a small fee
> for more space...
> if we cant have ubuntu one why not get a small team integrating sync
> options ie owncloud and google cloud services as it seems to me a lot
> of people are asking how to do this and its messy?... is it on the list
> of things to do or waiting for people to develop this? as i think you
> now have tablet / server / phone / computer desktop / laptop desktop
> and no sync between these - i think in todays way of mobile and
> computing this is part and parcel of every platform
>
> thoughts please?
>
> Wayne Ward
>
>
>
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