XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.internet.wireless   
   From: alice.jones-donotspam@ptd.net   
      
   In message wfWdncsmFdHZiiTLnZ2dnUU78I2dnZ2d@brightview.co.uk, Andy Burns   
   said:   
      
   > How about the OwnCloud app, so you can have the convenience of syncing   
   > stuff to a server under your control?   
      
   I do perfectly well with freeware, gaining *all* the functionality *I*   
   need with free apps, and not losing a thing. So, my confusion with what   
   you meant above had nothing to do with the freeeware part above.   
      
   My confusion with what you posted is how a cloud is supposed to help me.   
      
   As you can imagine, by design, I want *nothing* whatsoever of mine on any   
   Internet cloud. However, you're talking about a cloud at my own home,   
   totally under my own control. Is that correct?   
      
   Since I have Linux and Windows, I am aware that there is freeware cloud   
   server software that I can set up at home so that my phone "syncs" with   
   the home cloud (totally within the home private LAN).   
      
   However, I'm not sure what the *benefit* is even of having any cloud.   
   Besides the obvious backup in case of disaster (which I'm not worried   
   about in the least), what's the advantage of having a local private cloud?   
      
   You said this, which I don't understand the tradeoff of:   
   > Then you don't have to choose between   
   > trusting sync with google, or,   
   > barely getting any advantage from owning a smartphone   
      
   How does a lack of a local private cloud (or the lack of any cloud   
   whatsoever, which is what I have now) cause me to 'barely get any   
   advantage from owning a smartphone'?   
      
   I'm doing just fine *without* a cloud.   
   If I were to set up a cloud, it would *only* be a private freeware cloud   
   on my linux server (e.g., Folder Sync Lite on Android with SMB/OwnCloud   
   on Linux perhaps?).   
      
   So, Andy, you seem to know a *lot* more than I do.   
   I respect your knowledge   
      
   I only ask ... Can you un-confuse me?   
      
   What would I do with (any) cloud that I'm not doing now ?   
   (besides backups, which I already have covered by another method).   
      
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