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Originally Posted by Rushmore
It makes sense to me. Google's strategy is all about tying people more and more into it's universe of applications and services, so they can track your usage patterns and interests and then advertise back to you. And I don't see why that's a conspiracy theory. It's just speculation about Google business strategy with the Android.
After a year of apathy, the app space issue is finally becoming more public due to Droid. Here is an Android dev's effort IMO to spin it:
"Kevin Dill - October 30th, 2009 at 5:53 am CDT
We have a partial solution at this time to some of the Android storage woes. Remote file storage is available for the Android which emulates local storage for predominantly multimedia. We offer that service at Android Storage. We are working on technology and an app which will actually allow apps to be stored completely remote and then be “temped” to the phone via a stream and operated under a master app. That will be coming before spring. This changes the playing field and allows devices to fully take advantage of “virtually” unlimited app and storage memory with the improvements in 3G, 4G, and WIFI availability."
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What if central storage was their plan all along and that is why the devices have such low memory for apps? Perhaps they are banking on consumers being apathetic and blindly accept this lame ***** "solution".
They would then have more usage patterns for people and what apps they use and when. Has a little more of a big brother bend to it AND reduces the content rights of the consumer (if there are any rights in the first place).
Sorry for the conspiracy theory, but it seems the only thing that makes sense.
That said, I see it as a Trojan Horse of another kind. It's aimed at Microsoft and it's designed to get people off of Office and into the Google office cloud. They see the documents residing in the cloud and Android phones accessing, viewing, annotating, and editing them while in the cloud.