Existing locally by default will hurt more users who are not aware of the Internet. Accidental uninstallation or device replacement will cause all data to be lost, which will cause them to suffer great losses, and we will also attract a lot of scolding and bad reviews.
The guys who can have this question must be a very smart and technical friend, at least someone who has worked in an Internet company. But considering that most of the other users don’t even know what a cloud server is, we refuse to store data locally on the device by default. The reasons are as follows:
In 「🔐How to ensure the security of data? 」As we mentioned in this article, we use the concept of decentralized storage and AES&RSA double encryption to ensure that your data is only readable by you in the world. Even if you uninstall, reinstall, or change devices, your data will not be lost. data. Because of Steve Jobs’s product concept, which is not to pursue the earliest, but to pursue the best, it is obvious that local storage is not the best solution. What we pursue is that once we determine something, we must strive to make the most competitive product on the market. Local storage has its most fatal shortcoming. At this stage, it is better to have less than in excess. We do not rule out the possibility of creating a local version of PassLock in the future.
Once the default local storage method is adopted, this will greatly harm users who are not network aware. They may not understand what local and cloud storage are. They will simply believe that the data stored in PassLock will not be lost as long as they do not delete it actively. Therefore, it is easy to have major problems such as uninstalling, reinstalling, or changing devices and losing data. Given that the data stored on PassLock may be the user's most important data, this is a very dangerous solution.
Local storage solutions cannot provide cross-device synchronization and backup functions. If you change devices or need to access password data on multiple devices, data synchronization and backup will not be possible. PassLock has spent a lot of time to be compatible with iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, just to make it convenient for users with multiple Apple devices to Synchronize data between devices. Even if you only have one Apple device now, it does not rule out that you will have both an iPad or a Mac in the future, as well as inevitable updated devices. Suppose you update an iPhone next year, data migration will still be a big trouble. With iCloud storage, you can perfectly inherit all previously stored data without any operations.
In summary, local storage is an option, but not the best solution. Maybe we will develop a new purely local PassLock in the near future, specifically for those of you who are smart and understand technology.