{"id":891,"date":"2014-11-11T14:57:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T14:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=891"},"modified":"2014-11-11T14:57:37","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T14:57:37","slug":"is-google-breaking-the-android-file-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=891","title":{"rendered":"Is Google breaking the Android file-system?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the comments on <a href='http:\/\/scripting.com\/2014\/11\/10\/useDropboxInPlaceOfItunes.html'>Use Dropbox in place of iTunes<\/a> I pointed out that, far from Android working straightforwardly, the problems I posted about <a href=\"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=889\">here<\/a> suggest that Google is actually breaking the &#8220;just working&#8221; file-system model that Android used to have.<br \/>\nMaybe this is in the name of security. Or efficiency. Or following Apple in wanting to control everything on the device through their own apps and protocols.<br \/>\nWhichever, I&#8217;m deeply disappointed with this.<br \/>\n(Dave suggested I noted that comment here on the blog to give it more visibility. Agreed, we need to draw people&#8217;s attention to this. We can&#8217;t lose the file-system as a widely used open protocol for different applications and vendors to communicate.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the comments on Use Dropbox in place of iTunes I pointed out that, far from Android working straightforwardly, the problems I posted about here suggest that Google is actually breaking the &#8220;just working&#8221; file-system model that Android used to have. Maybe this is in the name of security. Or efficiency. Or following Apple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,148,183],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-android","tag-file-system","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}