while the notion that files are "dying" may be true, the way iphone os handles them is still not usable. When you see a photo on your desk, do you think “a fil

while the notion that files are "dying" may be true, the way iphone os handles them is still not usable. When you see a photo on your desk, do you think “a file!” or do you think “a photo of my family!”? i think, "a photo of my family", but then i think, "i want to make a copy of this and mail it to someone" so i take it to walgreens and get a copy, then i go to the post office and mail it. to send a copy of the photo on my ipad, can i carry the photo with me as i launch the e-mail application? or can i carry it with me as i launch a flickr uploading application? or carry it into beejive and send it in an instant message? on a mac you can. you just drag the photo out of iphoto and drop it on some application. on android, you click the share button while in the photos application and up pops a list of every application that can do something with your photo. on the ipad, it's backwards. you launch the flickr application and then have to find your photo again. and this is restricted to photos, since it's an internal api. any other 3rd party app wishing to share data with another app can't do it. right now if you want to print an e-mail from an ipad, you install a printing application and it has to have an embedded e-mail client where you have to duplicate your settings and e-mail storage. apple could make an api to access your e-mails (not likely) but it's still backwards. the e-mail client should let you print or do anything else with an e-mail from the e-mail client, not the other way around.