Dnia piątek, 6 marca 2020 16:11:48 CET Martin Steigerwald pisze: > Nicolás Alvarez - 06.03.20, 16:07:09 CET: > > > On 6 Mar 2020, at 11:26, Martin Steigerwald <mar...@lichtvoll.de> > > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Martin Flöser - 06.03.20, 13:14:36 CET: > > >> Am 2020-03-06 08:20, schrieb Nicolás Alvarez: > > >>> Apple can give its million appstore apps access to Google calendar > > >>> data, and Mozilla can let addons access email data, but we can't? > > >>> What do they do differently? > > >> > > >> The only thing they do differently is that they have a permission > > >> system in place. Doesn't apply for Thunderbird of course which > > >> means > > >> we should look at their privacy policy. Though we should never ask > > >> Google "Why is Thunderbird allowed?" as we don't want that > > >> Thunderbird gets access revoked. > > > > > > I ask a different question: > > > > > > Why – at all – rely on a provider who dictates on who gets access to > > > it and who does not? Why – at all – rely on a provider who by doing > > > so creates a walled garden? > > > > That's something you should go ask the thousands of users complaining > > that they can't connect to GMail using KMail. They're the ones > > relying on the provider. Go to the bug report and tell them the > > solution to their KMail errors is to stop using Google services. That > > should go well :) > > See?
I think the first step of moving users from a service such as gmail into more decentrlized services, is to provide them a good tool that can support both. It's already a challange to convince someone to move from their current software to a different one, combine it with the need to change their service provider as well and it becomed that much harder.
