Google Restores Nextcloud Users' File Access on Android (arstechnica.com) 9
An anonymous reader shared this report from Ars Technica:
Nextcloud, a host-your-own cloud platform that wants to help you "regain control over your data," has had to tell its Android-using customers for months now that they cannot upload files from their phone to their own servers. Months of emails and explanations to Google's Play Store representatives have yielded no changes, Nextcloud .
That blog post — and media coverage of it — seem to have moved the needle. In an update to the post, Nextcloud wrote that as of May 15, Google has offered to restore full file access permissions. "We are preparing a test release first (expected tonight) and a final update with all functionality restored. If no issues occur, the update will hopefully be out early next week," the Nextcloud team wrote....
[Nextcloud] told The Register that it had more than 800,000 Android users. The company's blog post goes further than pinpointing technical and support hurdles. "It is a clear example of Big Tech gatekeeping smaller software vendors, making the products of their competitors worse or unable to provide the same services as the giants themselves sell," Nextcloud's post states. "Big Tech is scared that small players like Nextcloud will disrupt them, like they once disrupted other companies. So they try to shut the door." Nextcloud is one of the leaders of an antitrust-minded movement against Microsoft's various integrated apps and services, having filed a complaint against the firm in 2021.
That blog post — and media coverage of it — seem to have moved the needle. In an update to the post, Nextcloud wrote that as of May 15, Google has offered to restore full file access permissions. "We are preparing a test release first (expected tonight) and a final update with all functionality restored. If no issues occur, the update will hopefully be out early next week," the Nextcloud team wrote....
[Nextcloud] told The Register that it had more than 800,000 Android users. The company's blog post goes further than pinpointing technical and support hurdles. "It is a clear example of Big Tech gatekeeping smaller software vendors, making the products of their competitors worse or unable to provide the same services as the giants themselves sell," Nextcloud's post states. "Big Tech is scared that small players like Nextcloud will disrupt them, like they once disrupted other companies. So they try to shut the door." Nextcloud is one of the leaders of an antitrust-minded movement against Microsoft's various integrated apps and services, having filed a complaint against the firm in 2021.
Stop using Android (Score:2, Interesting)
Google don't have your best interests at heart.
If only Pine64 would release a Pinephone 2 based on the Allwinner A733.
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It would be nice if there are some choices. Just finding a flagship phone that doesn't have a locked bootloader can be impossible, and every time one decides to do an upgrade, the process can be quite different. Although if one can find a decent phone that can run LineageOS, that can do for a lot of things.
It would be nice if phones were more universal, where the binary kernel blobs could be released as source, similar to how HTC did it. This allowed one to throw a Linux distribution on one of their phon
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Rather than saying "Don't use this" I'd appreciate a suggestion for what to actually realistically use if you want to have a phone that can, you know, interface with your bank and stuff like that.
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If you want to use modern security-theatre-required applications (such as banking or trading), you're pretty much fucked unless you go with a big mainstream phone OS. A lot of institutions/companies seem to be deprecating website functionality in favor of mobile apps for the "security" features, so just using a web browser is also no longer an alternative.
Dupe. (Score:2)