Comment Backup is valid for the cloud too (Score 1) 368
Backupify (disclosure: I work there) does automated facebook archiving as well as other services. There are many ways to lose data, so more redundancy is usually a win.
Arranging Electronic Access For Your Survivors? 335
smee2 writes "In the past, when a family member died, you could look through their files and address books to find all the people and businesses that should be notified that the person is deceased. Now the hard-copy address book is becoming a thing of the past. I keep some contact information in a spreadsheet, but I have many online friends that I only have contact with through web sites such as Flickr. My email accounts have many more people listed than my address book spreadsheet. I have no interest in collecting real world info from all my online contacts. The sites where I have social contact with people from around the world (obviously) require user names and passwords. Two questions: 1. How do you intend to let the executors of your estate or family members know which online sites/people you'd like them to notify of your demise? 2. How are you going to give access to the passwords, etc. needed to access those sites in a way that doesn't cause a security concern while you're still alive?"
Comment Freedom can be important (Score 1) 344
Depends on what you are coding for. If as you say, you are developing for our own benefit to control your home automation, you'd be better off using Android as you'll have more freedom to innovate and be able to code as needed at a lower level.
If you want to sell it, the iPhone is probably the better of the two, as long as you can live with the limitations.
I've done a fair amount of coding with the iPhone, and while it is nice to develop for, I constantly chafe at lacking/bad functionality/APIs that I know I could do a better job of if the platform were more open.
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