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No matter how much you might try to excuse it, there is no greater user friendliness than a device simply identifying as data storage to the OS. It's ridiculous
by slowpoke 14y ago
No matter how much you might try to excuse it, there is no greater user friendliness
than a device simply identifying as data storage to the OS. It's ridiculous to have
to use a separate program when you could just use your file manager.
- Tloewald 14y agoThat's a consequence of cutting deals with the music industry. Apple had to block users using their iPods as devices for copying music around to enable the iTunes store to work. There are all kinds of trade off in iTunes design, but in the end it's the only significant end to end solution out there, even after all this time. (Kindle Fire is close.) Oh and anything that involves the file system is not friendly for a surprisingly huge number of users.
- slowpoke 14y ago>Oh and anything that involves the file system is not friendly for a surprisingly huge number of users. "User friendliness" in this case also includes developers, who could easily write a program that interacts with the device. For example, any media player could be used to synchronize music (if it supports that feature).