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This crap drives me crazy with my touch and is what's holding me back from buying an iPad. Download file with browser, can't. Get app to download file. Want t
by njharman 17y ago
This crap drives me crazy with my touch and is what's holding me back from buying an iPad.
Download file with browser, can't. Get app to download file. Want to view it with PDF app, can't. Cause there are no files and apps can't share data. Want to move it into my photo album or music or video or ebook folders, can't cause there are no "folders". (some newer API's might allow specific exceptions I've quit paying attention). Want to transfer it to removeable media, can't. Cause I guess that's too confusing. Want to transfer it to another device, can't unless task centric app supports that cause again no files, no sharing app data.
Every app is a silo. It's the diametrically opposite of *nix philosophy of small tools connected in myriad of ways. It maybe great for consumers who can't or refuse to learn. But for computer users it sucks balls.
[edit: this is the point of iPhone and iPad. They aren't devices for computer users. They are the mass consumer device the generic/multipurpose/computer has and can not ever become.]
- sandGorgon 17y agothis is roughly the problem that KDE's Nepomuk (and its ontology) is tryin to solve. Though their implementation is a resource hog.