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I'd bet that less than 0.1% of users use a custom clipboard. Android's primary focus should be to make the OS secure for the nontechnical majority. These are pe
by jeswin 8y ago
I'd bet that less than 0.1% of users use a custom clipboard. Android's primary focus should be to make the OS secure for the nontechnical majority. These are people who don't understand permissions, and will click on app installer popups. IMHO this is a welcome move.
An alternative would have been to deny all network access to clipboard apps - thereby ensuring that they are not able to steal any data.
- Ultramanoid 8y agoAccording to numbers of downloads of clipboard managers, it's probably much higher than that. But the reasoning doesn't stand. Like I said, they could remove all phony Chrome clones with massive analytics and calls home, of which there are dozens, with read and write storage permissions, internet permission, etc, the list goes on and on. And say only Chrome is allowed, or vetted browsers from known vendors, like Mozilla or Microsoft, they certainly should, but they don't do it. Yet they pick on an essential feature for anyone using copy and paste hundreds of times a day. There is much more danger in rogue browsers, by far, than in a clipboard manager. The solution is absolutely obvious. It isn't what they decided. It is just the first beta, but we'll see. It'd be ridiculous to need to have a text file always open in another application with constantly used bits of text, code, or info, and switch back and forth as needed multiplying a simple workflow by who knows how much in operations and time.
- Klathmon 8y agoI'm sorry, but I think even saying 0.1% of users use a clipboard manager is way overestimating it. The top clipboard manager apps have like 500k installs. Android had 2.7 billion users in 2017. If we assume that the Android install base hasn't grown and that the total base of clipboard managers is 10x larger, we still only get to 0.18% of users...
- Ultramanoid 8y agoClipper [1] alone has over a million installations. Others as you say have 500k, it all amounts to millions of users of clipboard managers specifically labelled as such. Add other applications which couldn't work without a clipboard monitoring feature ( KDE Connect has been mentioned already, translation applications, text and code editors, the list goes on... ) and you jump to tens of millions if not hundreds of millions. [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.rojekti.clipper https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.rojekti.cl...
- Arnt 8y agoI've no idea how many people use them, but I do and it's easy to get used to. What I use is an app called KDE Connect, which provides a shared clipboard with my desktop computer if the phone is on the same WLAN. It's neat. Really neat. And of course it needs network access.
- izacus 8y agoHow many actual people (as in persons) are those 0.1% when it comes to Android? People here always operate with percentages like they're worth anything as absolute numbers.