On 21 Jan., 03:55, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > I really do think the sync mindset is something from yester-decade, > therein lies the assumption that the device is an inferior slave to a > master/host. Of course you can always just mount the phone as a USB > drive or transfer via bluetooth - no special software (iTunes) or > operating system (Windows or OSX) needed.
I suppose you mean "syncing with a PC" vs "syncing with the cloud". My iTunes syncs my music, video, movies, play lists, podcasts, iTunes U lectures, audio books and Outlook contacts / appointments with my iPhone with a single app (though iTunes for Windows is pretty slow when syncing on my laptop). Now I assume I can't do that all with a single app on Google, so I lose convenience here. "syncing != copying" - when I sync pod casts, audio books or iTunes U lectures, then iTunes remembers the position in the respective files. For music, iTunes syncs the amount of time a song was played or its rating no matter whether those changes came from the laptop or the iPhone (I have automatic play lists based on both of these). I still have an old iPod classic with some videos I want to watch and a little Shuffle for sports, and they both get synced with iTunes, too. And finally, I'm a freelance and often on a client site where my iPhone isn't allowed on the WiFi network, so I rely on the iPhone 3G connection there (my laptop is connected to the Internet). My iPhone price plan here in Germany only allows for 300 MB combined download/ upload per month at full speed, after that, I get dropped to 64kBit/s (I'm on Vodafone, T-Mobile plans suck in the same way). So syncing a single iTunes U lecture would max me out for two months (the Stanford iPhone dev ones are 500-700 MB per lecture). So unless Google has all my content in the cloud, can really sync it, my price plan has not volume limits and the Google phone is an order of magnitude faster with downloads (4G, probably), I'll stick with PC syncing.
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