> > That hasn't stopped many devices from making the removable storage their > primary one. But if this is by design, I'd like to link to the design > philosophy document. Maybe I can send that to the users. I can't find > anything official, though. If the other devices are going to be unwriteable > 90% of the time, I can't spend much more time on it. >
I find it hard to believe that devices exist that treat removable storage as primary. If your app/users need to create very large files, you need devices with >> huge amounts of internal storage or you need to work out an alternate >> mechanism such as cloud storage. Handheld portable devices are not general >> purpose computers (yet). You should not expect to use them as one. >> > > I do no subscribe to that philosophy. Compared to computers of not very > many years ago, 2Gig or 8gig is already lots of space. If there is another > card slot, users are going to put a 32gig SD card. In practice, it is not > removed all that often. It is only natural that users expect apps to be > able to use that space. Then they find out some can and some can't. > At the same rate, the storage demand of a typical user has gone up. Today we have a need to store gigabytes of media files (music, pictures and videos) which did not exist many years ago so 8 gigs is not a "lot of space" anymore. Did we have 8 megapixel cameras in devices or ability to view HD videos a few years ago? I agree that it would be great to have ability to discover the removable storage in a sane and predictable manner but as I said, it looks like the platform wants to treat the removable storage as a transient readonly storage for media files. > I understand by now that I don't have any say, but this idea of tight, > arbitrary control of what content a user puts on their own storage volume > seems more Apple like than Android like. Apple users don't, in general, > have file access to their own volume, so Android *could* be very > competitive in this area. But at present, we are frustrating users enough > that they are crawling back to iOS. > Funny you mention iOS in this context when you don't even have *any* removable storage in devices running iOS. So what is the reason the users are "crawling" back to iOS? What is it buying them? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
