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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