Google buys app company Bump

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Google buys Bump

The startup behind popular smartphone apps for sharing contacts, pictures or other data by “bumping” smartphones together announced on Monday that it has been bought by Google.
 
Unless they are after patents or something, this is such a waste of a buy. We spent how many years trying to get everything wireless and shareable over some distance... and now we want to "bump" phones to share... why not just push the share button...

This is just like NFC, useless because it defeats the point of the mobile and remote aspect of phones.
 
2012 said:
Unless they are after patents or something, this is such a waste of a buy. We spent how many years trying to get everything wireless and shareable over some distance... and now we want to "bump" phones to share... why not just push the share button...

This is just like NFC, useless because it defeats the point of the mobile and remote aspect of phones.
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The app is useful especially for transferring contacts across different platforms. Manufactures don't let their phones play with others' so this is a good way of sharing stuff without needing other devices in between.
 
R13... said:
The app is useful especially for transferring contacts across different platforms. Manufactures don't let their phones play with others' so this is a good way of sharing stuff without needing other devices in between.
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An app like that would be useful... but do you need to bro fist every time to share? Seems silly.
 
2012 said:
Unless they are after patents or something, this is such a waste of a buy. We spent how many years trying to get everything wireless and shareable over some distance... and now we want to "bump" phones to share... why not just push the share button...

This is just like NFC, useless because it defeats the point of the mobile and remote aspect of phones.
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I would say bump is pretty usefull, especially if they incorporate it into the core OS. Think sharing without the need for NFC.

There are two parts to Bump: the app running on your device and a smart matching algorithm running on our servers in the cloud. The app on your phone uses the phone's sensors to literally "feel" the bump, and it sends that info up to the cloud. The matching algorithm listens to the bumps from phones around the world and pairs up phones that felt the same bump. Then we just route information between the two phones in each pair.
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AlphaJohn said:
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Edit: I see they now have a PC app as well so you can bump your phone onto the spacebar for same functionality....
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Last time I used it, it uploaded the file from your phone to the internet then downloaded it from internet to PC. Seems like a bit of a waste since my phone + pc sits on the same Wifi...
 
Park@82 said:
Last time I used it, it uploaded the file from your phone to the internet then downloaded it from internet to PC. Seems like a bit of a waste since my phone + pc sits on the same Wifi...
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Well if you at home/work you would use other means to transfer files like USB or your normal sync software, this is primary for sharing a picture or mp3 with "Other" people. Think visiting a client/friend and you want to give them a picture. On a PC they simply go to http://bu.mp and you bump your phone sharing the data, no need to set-up wifi or add contact details, its just visit hand bump done... no need for setting up nothing.
 
AlphaJohn said:
...this is primary for sharing a picture or mp3 with "Other" people. Think visiting a client/friend and you want to give them a picture. On a PC they simply go to http://bu.mp and you bump your phone sharing the data, no need to set-up wifi or add contact details, its just visit hand bump done... no need for setting up nothing.
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I currently use google drive & google plus for the above. I think google will integrate this in to these apps.
 
This is bad news. Most people who use bump don't bother to find out how it actually work, it's just magic, "bump" the phone and then the data magically goes through the air to the other phone. The reality here is that when you "bump" the phones all the data you share is sent over the internet to some central server (now to be google) who will keep a copy for themselves and then they send the data to the recipient.


So now we have google who don't care about our privacy anymore , having your location , time, contacts and other data and information of the person you are sharing your data with,storing it probably without telling you and having their NSA friends and who knows who else looking at it.
 
bboy said:
This is bad news. Most people who use bump don't bother to find out how it actually work, it's just magic, "bump" the phone and then the data magically goes through the air to the other phone. The reality here is that when you "bump" the phones all the data you share is sent over the internet to some central server (now to be google) who will keep a copy for themselves and then they send the data to the recipient.

So now we have google who don't care about our privacy anymore , having your location , time, contacts and other data and information of the person you are sharing your data with,storing it probably without telling you and having their NSA friends and who knows who else looking at it.
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Its not that Google doesn't care about your privacy its US law that prevents them to care about it. Read Patriot act.

In fact they do care more than most about your privacy see: https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-2013

But yeah I get your point, dont share your bomb target maps or explosive recipes over Bump :D
 
bboy said:
This is bad news. Most people who use bump don't bother to find out how it actually work, it's just magic, "bump" the phone and then the data magically goes through the air to the other phone. The reality here is that when you "bump" the phones all the data you share is sent over the internet to some central server (now to be google) who will keep a copy for themselves and then they send the data to the recipient.


So now we have google who don't care about our privacy anymore , having your location , time, contacts and other data and information of the person you are sharing your data with,storing it probably without telling you and having their NSA friends and who knows who else looking at it.
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You don't think the cellphone networks don't do this already?
 
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