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JulmaHerra is offline JulmaHerra
2015-01-27 , 21:24
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Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
We don't know anything about purchased apps yet as there is no such support. But my case with two Jollas in the family sharing the same account shows that the streamlining you mention above does not work. At least not at the moment.
That's why I said how I'd prefer it to be when I receive my Jolla Tablet.

Maybe I should actually make a suggestion at TJC....

And therein I believe lies the crux of the whole thing. It is so common to bring up ideological issues to every discussion about anything even remotely connected to "Linux" and "open source" that people tend to automatically assume that every discussion is about ideological issues. I tried to convey all the time that I had technical reasons in mind, not ideological.
That may be because in Linux and Open Source world there are awful lot of ideological things. Just look at the discussion about SDXC-support in Jolla Tablet. I can hardly see any technical reason to implement the store otherwise (like performance, reliability, end user experience...) - if only motivation to do it would be like "I don't want them to know this and that or anything at all", I do count it being an ideological reason, not technical. If something makes things more difficult for end user, there has to be very concrete and strong reasons for doing it because every unnecessary snag average user hits will have negative impact on adoption rate and reputation of the platform, which are extremely critical for it to survive in the long run.

I know this is not the common way in the modern world but my approach to any problem is, "take as little as you need", as opposed to "take as much as you can get." That applies to buffer sizes as well as how much to pack on a holiday and... how much the central repository needs to know about each client.
Requiring username (which by itself does not identify person behind it in any way) and password is IMO quite far from "take as much as you can get."
 

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