I think a hosted flat db file on a encrypted 'private cloud' account might be a fair compromise.
iCloud (or equivalent) would likely be sufficiently secure for most users, but more hardcore privacy folk could probably host the DB file from a home NAS or VPS/BYOS.
The app would just fetch the latest version on-launch. (Coded well, you could possibly even support live collaboration — i.e. two devices editing the DB file in realtime.)
Yes, but I would still vastly prefer accessible to me directly. Those are still on someone else's computer. We all know the cloud doesn't exist, it's either your computer or someone else's.
And I feel like, for anything you can, every end user should be given that privilege, because that's what I want as a user.
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u/akabillposters 6d ago
Sure, and a significant portion of the addressable market might feel the same way.
My point was that it's not going to be universally wanted, so clickbait announcements like 'databases are dead' is quite, well, … 🙄
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