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Show me where you store the data. If you store it on your phone, then it's not showing up on your other devices. If you lose or break your phone, then your dat
by solatic 3y ago
Show me where you store the data.
If you store it on your phone, then it's not showing up on your other devices. If you lose or break your phone, then your data is gone. There are very few applications for which that's acceptable - basically just your calculator app.
If you don't store it on your phone, then it's stored on some kind of server, somewhere. Do you own and control that server, or does someone else? How does the application consume and update the data?
- forbiddenvoid 3y agoThe article clearly states that data is stored on the device. That's the exact use case described - where people do not want any of their data stored on a server they don't control. If that's you, and if privacy is important enough to you to want a local-only app, I think you'll find a solution to back up your data. I don't think it's unreasonable to continue producing apps that do not require an internet connection to function and be useful.
- thisislife2 3y agoFair point. To quibble though, I guess you are only thinking of iPhones and iPads. There are other mobile devices with built-in support for sdcards, and even USB drive, that easily allow you to save your data on them or use them to create backup of your data. These features allows the user to have better control of their data.