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Bullet points taken from article:

  • Google is shutting down the Google Maps Timeline feature on June 9, 2025.
  • Personal Maps timelines will be saved on individual devices instead of the cloud beginning on that date.
  • Users should begin the migration to on-device Timeline data before June or risk losing all of their past Maps data.

I'm pleased that this potentially sensitive information is moving on-device instead of on Google servers.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks! Got your reply right after I submitted my edit. Ultimately I like this change.

I do wish that it were easier to manage storage at an OS level, though. It would be super cool if I could have any arbitrary app data stored securely off-device. Backups are one thing, but offloading is another. I foolishly bought a 128GB phone and I am perpetually at the limit. My kingdom for an SD slot! (Though I'm not sure if many apps can actually use SD cards these days.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The SD card business is total BS. Vendors claim they did away with it because of performance and quality concerns, but there are some really nice and fast SD card standards out there. They should have taken the Playstation model -- accept anything into the slot but test for acceptable performance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Absolutely. The existence of ~~Amazon~~ low-quality, often counterfeit SD cards is not a reason to abandon the technology entirely.

Google charges $100 to upgrade from 128GB to 256GB with the Pixel 9. You can get a high-quality 512GB or even 1TB microSD card from a reputable brand like SanDisk for less than that. And you'd be able to use it on your next phone, too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They could even have an approved hardware list like they do for DDR5 motherboards and just reject cards that don’t meet the approval list. Even that would be better than what we have now. The only reasonable explanation is they saw the chance to make some money and incidentally it makes this problem go away and did not think a step further than that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

They could even have an approved hardware list like they do for DDR5 motherboards and just reject cards that don’t meet the approval list.

that's the way to make arbitrary limitations around it accepted by everyone, like only being "compatible" with same brand cards

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

You’re not wrong. But instead, they choose to be compatible with nothing. Instead you buy only from them with your phone.