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"or even file system access" That right there tells you the iPad will never be a pro machine or replacement for a laptop or anything but a toy. I bought my sis
by mnm1 10y ago
"or even file system access"
That right there tells you the iPad will never be a pro machine or replacement for a laptop or anything but a toy. I bought my sister one a couple years back. I still have no idea how to play movies on it in non Apple-approved formats. Yes, I could research it. But this "it just works" machine is one now that requires research to play a movie. From what I could tell, each app will do it differently. Yeah, that's progress all right. Progress on a toy, a toy that by design (of its OS) will never be anything more.
- comex 10y ago> I still have no idea how to play movies on it in non Apple-approved formats. You download VLC from the App Store and use that. Not much different from Mac or Windows, both of which require you to download VLC or another third party application to get a wider range of video formats. (And iOS does have what amounts to an accessible filesystem these days; it's called iCloud Drive.)
- mnm1 10y agoiCloud Drive is a filesystem? As in, it can be used without an iCloud account, without Internet access, and without copying anything off the device to a remote server? Because if not, it's not a filesystem.