Th3 Core

That looks pretty polished for an MVP.

Like millions others, I’VE BECOME A PRODUCT OF GOOGLE.

I often ask myself, "how much would I pay to get rid of products that don't serve me ads or sell my data?" Chief among those would be Google. What I have not done is built a budget of what it would cost me to replace all those services.

I'm guessing that in straight monthly cost, it would be about $200-$300.

Of course, then there's the problem of the fact that most services you actually *pay* for are still bombarding you with ads and capturing tons of data and using it to target you better - Netflix and Amazon (according to today's headline in Le Monde, now the third biggest online ad market after G adn FB).

I've been wondering about replacements for some of these cloud services myself.  All the good free services are drying up or going pay.  I've been considering Fastmail.  I'd give quite a bit to be out from under Google.

If /e/ can pull this off I'm probably in.  I do expect Google to do it's passive aggressive backlash on this, like try to lock in app developers to only sell on Google Play.

Actually, the other thing is that RingCentral didn't have local numbers for me.

They still don't, but now that I grabbed a number via Google, I could transfer it. And they do have internet texting and voicemail to email. So that's an option. $20/mo

So with those two services, I'm already at $30/mo for one account.

The shame is I like Gmail, but I don't trust the ba#####s.

I am forced to use Outlook in one case and I choose to use Yahoo for another account. Every time I use those accounts, I am pained by how awful they are. Search on Outlook is abysmal. I spent 30 minutes finding an email in Outlook that would have popped up in under 30 seconds on GMail. And Yahoo is slow and cumbersome.

The simple fact is that Google does search very well and applies that intelligently to GMail. The thing is, I the tech required to intelligently search a small corpus like my personal email is readily available, so I would guess that any service that is not irreparably hidebound (aka Outlook) would now be indistinguishable on that score.

>>GCalendar

I don't feel like the calendar is that hard to get away from, but every worthwhile calendar is going to integrate with all sorts of things in the cloud. I have calendars imported and exported by .ical feeds and I just can't really even conceive of how I would secure those without adding a huge hassle to my life. So I don't every expect any level of security there.

>>Dropbox

I still have things on Dropbox and Google Drive, but I've mostly migrated to pCloud which offers lifetime accounts (whatever that means, but at least until they change their minds, I'm good) and full encryption. So right now, I have 2TB with encryption, which means I can backup all my personal data (i.e. not a disk image including apps and OS) with no problem. It's more bandwidth than space that's the issue (even places with decent downstream speeds often have horrid upstream).

I couldn't be happier with pCloud. In my opinion, it is superior to Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive. I can't think of one feature any of those has that is not equalled or improved by pCloud. For example, only OneDrive and pCloud have rate limiting settings, but pCloud does it better.

And, to bring it back around to your actual topic - pCloud has both GUI and CLI versions for Linux. Does anyone else offer a CLI version of a cloud storage app? Probably rarely used, but it tells you what their mindset is.

2018 Roadmap

October 2018: smartphones with /e/ OS start shipping to /e/ backers
January 2019: smartphones with /e/ OS start selling

Either this is new or I missed it the first time.  They intend to come out of beta around the first of the year.

These will be refurbished or pre-owned phones at first.  They are coming out with this fast.