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this is an artificial apple restriction. other vendors allow you to do exactly this

• laumars 8y ago
  Other vendors used to allow you to do this back when internal storage was vfat formatted but it's not been an option these days because Windows and Macs wouldn't have the file system drivers to read the storage. This is why MTP was created. However MTP is - in my experience - complete garbage and creates as many problems as it solves.
  • supermatt 8y ago
    Mounting MTP is transparent to the user on non-apple OSes as well. You can drag and drop files as you could when it was when mounting the VFAT block device. Its only on MacOS that this isn't handled gracefully. So yeah, apple is only mobile you cant do this on at all, and apple is only desktop OS you cant access other phones that permit it on (without installing some 3rd party tool). As an aside, I write this as an apple user (iphone, ipad, watch, macbook pro), and Im feeling quite infuriated thinking back on this.
    • laumars 8y ago
      I've used MTP and my experience is it that it leaves a lot to be desired regardless of the platform. My wife's Samsung phone never worked right with her Windows 7 laptop. Neither my Huawei nor the HTC handset I had before worked properly with any of my Linux machines either. I get the point of MTP is that is't supposed to be a transparent (to the user) interface but my experience is it falls short by a long way of achieving this in practice.
      • supermatt 8y ago
        Yeah, I agree - MTP is abominable on every device Ive used too.