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[Michał Karnicki <mkarnicki@xxxxxxxxx>]

You are totally right Dan. Thanks for catching my glitch.

I must correct myself, I skipped removing the other half of the paragraph
from Thomas.

1. sync while connected to wifi is natural and lovely, so we want that by
default. sync on HSDPA/3G/etc may be costly (or not), so the user will be
notified at the first app launch, just like Dan wrote, and the user will
have an option to choose if she/he wants to sync on H/3G/etc or not, in the
Settings activity. I see it that way. What do you think, Dan?

2. I don't like the other part of the sentence that I should have removed. I
don't want the app to keep the log of how much transfer it has used. There
are other apps for that. Either the user wants to sync on wifi, or she/he
wants to sync on wifi+data plans. It is the user who decides how much data
will be synced by starring fav elements, so in the end it is the user who
knows best how much data he might use. Eg. I'd sync music and large pdf's on
wifi, while small documents/pdfs/some pictures can sync on any connection I
have.

I hope we have convinced Thomas, that this would probably the better way of
handling it :)

Cheers, Mike

2010/5/21 Dan Trevino <dantrevino@xxxxxxxxxx>

> 2010/5/20 Michał Karnicki <mkarnicki@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >> (here or generally an option to just sync in wlans or wlan +
> >> 3g would be great) otherwise it should warn you when the download
> >> would exceed a user selected sync limit (useful for some dataplans).
> >
> > Will be included in future versions :) Good point! (check out the specs
> > wiki)
> >
>
> I'm not sure I can articulate how much I dislike this idea.
>
> The android is an internet phone.  I'm sensitive to the fact that not
> everyone can have "unlimited" data plans (not even those of us with
> unlimited plans have unlimited plans), but giving users a false sense
> of security by saying 'you've only synced 1 MB in U1' is not a good
> idea.
>
> This should be a separate system level app and several already exist. [1]
>
> Best practice seems to be a warning/disclaimer the first time you run
> the app saying that the user is responsible for data chargers, blah,
> blah, blah.
>
> Maybe I hate users or something, I dont know.  I just think this is
> better implemented elsewhere.  U1fA should stick to U1.  IMHO.
>
> [1] http://www.appbrain.com/search?q=data+usage
>
> Dan
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