In the vein of "The Bitter Southerner", we at Hargata Softworks are frustrated. We, as lifelong owners of rustbuckets and shitboxes, know the pain of vehicle maintenance all too well. We know the homemade spreadsheets are absolute hell to use on mobile devices, we know the folder full of receipts are terrible to organize and analyze, and most importantly, we know that when our users find a good, reliable software to track their vehicle maintenance, they will stick to the same software for years if not decades and they will expect the software to perform similarly down the road whether it's five years or twenty five years from now.
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In the vein of Howard Beale from Network(1976), we at Hargata Softworks are mad as hell. We, as lifelong owners of rustbuckets and shitboxes, know the pain of vehicle maintenance all too well. We know the homemade spreadsheets are absolute hell to use on mobile devices, we know the folder full of receipts are terrible to organize and analyze, and most importantly, we know that when our users find a good, reliable software to track their vehicle maintenance, they will stick to the same software for years if not decades and they will expect the software to perform similarly down the road whether it's five years or twenty five years from now.
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We live in an interesting time where users have virtually zero ownership of their data. Software as a Service(SaaS) models can be beneficial for a lot of users and app developers, but it certainly takes away certain freedoms from the user. There is absolutely zero reason for an app which primary purpose is to store and manage personal data to be served exclusively via a SaaS model. Keep in mind that we here at LubeLogger are not against cloud applications, but when the only offerings in the market are delivered solely via the cloud, it opens up a lot of questions regarding how the user's data is being used especially in free-tier offerings. e.g.: If you're only using an app to store and analyze data for your 2014 Honda Accord, why is the only option to store your data in a server halfway across the world managed by an individual or corporate entity that may or may not be a going concern?
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Being heavily reliant on "the cloud" for data storage and processing creates a lot of what-ifs scenarios that can lead to data-compromise and data-loss. What if the company/individual behind the app is no longer able to financially support the costs of the data storage? What will happen to the users' data then? And wouldn't that be extremely unfair towards the group of users that have financially supported the app? Even if financial constraints were a non-issue, most apps in the market are still dependent on archaic protocols to "the cloud" that are subject to obsolescence and scalability issues.
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Being heavily reliant on "the cloud" for data storage and processing creates a lot of what-ifs scenarios that can lead to data-compromise and data-loss. What if the company/individual behind the app is no longer able to financially support the costs of the data storage or the development effort of the app? What will happen to the users' data then? And wouldn't that be extremely unfair towards the group of users that have paid for the app? Even if financial constraints were a non-issue, most apps in the market are still dependent on archaic protocols to "the cloud" that are subject to obsolescence and scalability issues.
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The following reviews are of a competing app that have recently went through what we in the tech industry termed "Enshitification" that examplifies everything that can go wrong with being heavily reliant on "the cloud"
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The following reviews are of a competing app that have recently went through what we in the tech industry termed "Enshittification" that examplifies everything that can go wrong with being heavily reliant on "the cloud"
