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It has marginal utility for the user. It has significant utility for Google.
by ocdtrekkie 3y ago
It has marginal utility for the user. It has significant utility for Google.
- Phemist 3y agoFair.. "you are the product" strikes again
- rrdharan 3y agoI use at least 9 devices (four laptops, a desktop, watch, two phones, tablet) with Maps on them and very much appreciate having the location data synced serverside.
- mmsnberbar66 3y agowhy do you have 4 laptops?
- DiggyJohnson 3y agoIt's very easy for me to imagine having two work devices and two personal devices. Imagine GP is a contractor and a gamer: 1. Work laptop for contracting firm 2. Work laptop for client firm 3. Personal laptop for general computing 4. Linux machine for development of side projects, tinkering, etc. OR a gaming laptop
- mmsnberbar66 3y agoSure! it was just an honest question from a new engineer on the market :) I only have 2 myself
- rrdharan 3y agoGood guess but it’s slightly different: - 1 work laptop at office - 1 work laptop at home - 1 work laptop in second home - 1 work desktop in second home - 1 personal/shared laptop (mostly primary home) - 1 personal/shared desktop (primary home) I regularly travel between the office and the two homes (all are transit / bike accessible from each other). I don’t like carrying laptops between places and don’t work while commuting.
- prepend 3y agoYou can sync data in a privacy preserving way. For example, chrome sync passwords but google doesn’t have access to them. Apple syncs health data and have access. Etc etc. Sync is not a reason to have server side access to location data.
- hoffs 3y agoNo it's not, for majority of people cloud backups are definitely a bonus
- minsc_and_boo 3y agoPost cloud boom, the expectation is cloud syncing, not the exception.