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Well let's broaden this, there is no concept of files on the iPhone, and yes, you DO need them. Example: try attaching an excel sheet you received from a frien
by notlisted 14y ago
Well let's broaden this, there is no concept of files on the iPhone, and yes, you DO need them.
Example: try attaching an excel sheet you received from a friend to another email.
Example: the powerful Android "share" mechanism --the sole reason I have several iPads but switched to Android for real work (ie on my phone). Share is not limited to a bunch of "friend-aware" apps, but every app can register themselves as a "handler" for particular data objects (files), e.g. "picture" "pdf document" etc, and when you hit "share" all of these are shown in a list. No more circuitous nonsense where you have to open a file in goodreader or save it to dropbox first, so you can access it with another app, which speeds up things tremendously.
I think it's pretty safe to say that moving data from one app to the next is something everyone needs.
- mintplant 14y agoHonestly, "Share" is one of the most brilliant features Android has. Great example of something potentially minor (built-in "social sharing") becoming massively useful through extensibility.
- nicholassmith 14y agoOkay but the concept of files versus the specific application of a file manager are different things. I completely agree that iOS needs to expose file representations better between applications, but I think the very notion of a file manager is still utterly redundant for a large percentage of new smartphone owners.
- DerekL 14y agoApple added basically the same functionality in iOS 6, but it seems like many apps don't support it yet.