Are you listening to yourself? Android doesnt force you to use anything(Unless its AT&T). Apple restricts apps, android doesn't. How does that NOT sink into your brain?
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Oh why does Android force me to use Amazon, Picasa, MyBackup etc etc? Boo hoo?
Are you listening to yourself?
Are you listening to yourself? Android doesnt force you to use anything(Unless its AT&T). Apple restricts apps, android doesnt how does that NOT sink into your brain?
So, Apple forces you to NOT use something.
Is that the same as forcing you to use something? :'(
Perhaps a dictionary is in your future.
That's a great question to ask Apple. Maybe they were just lazy? Maybe there is a reason they don't want you to drag and drop onto an iPad or iPhone. Maybe they'll just add the feature in iPhone 5 and call it "magical".
I recommend a large capacity keychain flash drive for real life usage.
Why would I ask Apple? All they would say is how iTunes can be used for all of that and avoid the question entirely. I'm asking the resident Apple apologists.
Entirely not the point. Why shouldn't people be able to transfer music, movies, apps, pics, etc to/from their iOS device as easily as they would use an ordinary flash drive?
Why would I ask Apple? All they would say is how iTunes can be used for all of that and avoid the question entirely. I'm asking the resident Apple apologists.
Entirely not the point. Why shouldn't people be able to transfer music, movies, apps, pics, etc to/from their iOS device as easily as they would use an ordinary flash drive?
Well, Apple might tell you an iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch are complicated and not suitable for such a purpose, with consideration for general users who may damage critical files.
That's why I mentioned you should probably ask Apple this.
Why are you treating your Apple device like a Flash drive when it clearly has no way of plugging into a USB port without assistance?
that assistance being a cable? hell, every damn device uses a cable to hook into a usb port. my 250gb external drive hooks in the same way. the only difference is, apple decided the ipod side should be proprietary instead of standard usb. there is no assistance needed to plug in an ipod/ iphone.
the "its complicated" argument doesnt fly much with me either, as people who think drag and drop is complicated wont be trying to do it. some people just want a little bit more from their phones than apple is allowing, and they (apple) dont give a good reason why. as it is, i have used my phone as a storage device when i dont have my thumb drive on me. it does come in handy to have 16gb available when needed. i used my old winmo phone the same way.
Entirely not the point. Why shouldn't people be able to transfer music, movies, apps, pics, etc to/from their iOS device as easily as they would use an ordinary flash drive?
Because for one, iOS filesystem is different from that of a flash drive. There is no way you can mount it as a flash drive without special drivers.
runawayprisoner, there is a way to make a device USB compatible and still make it secure- aka put a password on the phone that needs to be entered before it will enter USB mode, hide system files or make them read only, etc.
The only reason why the iTunes syncing still exists is because it FORCES people to go through the money maker that is iTunes.
If normal people want to copy some piece of media off their friend's computer that they liked during a social visit they find they can't. This is by design- the design being a way to force media consumption through the profit-generating iTunes model. Plus there is the whole liability thing. Just like back in the iPod days, if people could easily drag and drop media on iDevices the media companies (that Apple is trying to cut deals with for iTunes) become offended because their devices turn into the ultimate pirate media movers.
Apple wants to make it so its VERY hard to get external media on the device, and VERY easy to get iTunes media on the device. The forceable use of iTunes is for their bottom line, nothing more or less.
That is why Apple product are only semi-useful to me until they are jailbroken, and the reason that I will stop buying iDevices if they ever find out how to stop jailbreaks.
almost the entire iOS device is encrypted and this is why only the photos/videos folder is viewable in windows
apple is designing their devices to be more compliant with Microsoft's ActiveSync and to win more corporate business than android
so why are some fortune 500 companies officially testing iphones for employees? and there are thousands of corporate/enterprise/work related apps in the app store
i use ios/android and blackberry every day. ios will kill android in the enterprise. the exchange email integration is much better on iOS. and there are more apps for corporate use on iOS
My flash drive is a tiny thing on my keychain. I do not carry an Apple USB cable with my iPhone.
/Point.
runawayprisoner, there is a way to make a device USB compatible and still make it secure- aka put a password on the phone that needs to be entered before it will enter USB mode, hide system files or make them read only, etc.
I don't think this is true. If you plug in an iPhone (or Touch) into Windows, you can drag and drop photos back and forth to a special section of the device. On my Windows 7, my iPhone's photo memory section shows up with as a Flash drive named "iPhone". If you can do photos, why can't you do MP3's or videos?
Because as I mentioned up there, if you can freely change the files inside the system, then the device has no way to know if something has been added or modified without scanning the files all over again. And file scanning is very slow on devices with limited I/O performance like the iPad, so scanning over files will make it lag more than necessary, especially more so when there are too many files.
That G73 was a huge waste of money, one of the most problematic mobile GPUs I've ever owned with the horrible driver support (crash, lock, grey screen of deaths). You're not getting anything past me since I've owned just about every Laptop worth looking into.
If the system files are exposed, they will be read one way or another, and that's insecure in case you don't want sensitive information such as your contacts, text messages, emails, and photos, etc... to be available to anyone who has access to your device.
Requiring a password to enter USB mode is useless when the OS isn't running, or it's cumbersome when you have to restore the device and you can't enter the password. Plus it's not just USB but the dock connector is used for many other things, and you wouldn't want your phone to ask every time you connect something new.
Another problem is iOS pre-caches or indexes all of the files transferred over iTunes, so access to them is simultaneously without lag. If you were able to freely transfer files over, then the device has to scan your folders over and over again to look for compatible file types, which will undoubtedly slow down the operation and make it not as smooth as desired.