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Re: Deebian 7.0 needs to support MTP (for Android), else it will lose relevance



On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 02:12:42PM +0100, Mirosław Zalewski wrote:
> > Galaxy Nexus was released with 4.0 more than year ago. It doesn't support
> > UMS.
> But, as David pointed out, there are bunch of new devices that DOES support 
> UMS.
> 
> So maybe you should just choose your smartphone more carefully? It's nothing 
> new that before buying new device, Linux users should check if it will work 
> with their OS. Spending half an hour doing research may spare you much trouble 
> later.
Yeah, this is an option, though it is sad that people are forced to choose
a phone based on (lack of) Linux support of a protocol that exists for a
long time, instead of actual technical properties.
There are also people with existing devices who try to start using Linux,
but I'm not sure anymore that we try to support those.

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