{"id":1454,"date":"2017-01-18T13:45:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T20:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=1454"},"modified":"2017-01-18T13:45:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T20:45:08","slug":"is-there-a-reason-for-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=1454","title":{"rendered":"Is there a reason for this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking for productivity apps for my phone and tablet lately, because I&#8217;ve been wanting to improve my productivity. However, I&#8217;m also somewhat concerned about my privacy, so I&#8217;d prefer to use applications that don&#8217;t require me to obtain an account in order to use them. Most of the Kanban apps require accounts on their service, but I&#8217;ve found two that don&#8217;t, and I&#8217;m checking them out.<\/p>\n<p>I understand that certain applications really do need access to a server in order to implement the full set of capabilities. But riddle me this, Batman &#8230; why the hell does an <em>editor<\/em> require me to sign up for an account? What capabilities does the server provide in this case? I mean, I was able to do search and replace, automatic word wrap and hyphenation, and other such functions back when I was using an Apple II. Is my smartphone less capable? If they&#8217;re going to keep my files on their server, no thanks. That&#8217;s why I make backups, and that&#8217;s why Apple provides iCloud. What&#8217;s their value-added here?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve deleted the application, because it doesn&#8217;t just have limited capabilities without having an account &#8211; it <em>won&#8217;t let you use it at all<\/em> until you sign up for an account. You can&#8217;t even find out whether the available help information tells you why the account is needed. I really wish the app store required developers to state whether their app was usable without an account; it would make my selection process easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking for productivity apps for my phone and tablet lately, because I&#8217;ve been wanting to improve my productivity. However, I&#8217;m also somewhat concerned about my privacy, so I&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behind-the-scenes","category-software","category-why"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1455,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions\/1455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}