Prisoner of iTunes - the iPad file transfer horror

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Hoever it is a pleasant jail djf

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From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Date: June 7, 2010 9:52:52 PM EDT
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[Note: This item comes from reader Monty Solomon.  DLH]

From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com>
Date: June 7, 2010 6:25:28 PM PDT
Subject: Prisoner of iTunes - the iPad file transfer horror

Prisoner of iTunes - the iPad file transfer horror

The conflict between consumption and productivity

By John Lettice
The Register
7 June 2010

First the good news - it's light, compact, reasonably capable for 
typing, and it has enough battery life for you not to be forever 
worrying about where your next power socket's coming from. These 
advantages alone are sufficient for me to take the iPad seriously for 
note-taking and for document viewing and manipulation, and to stop 
using the MacBook Air as the thing I carry around all the time.

You can check out, but you can't leave

But the bad news is that - in this iteration at least - the iPad is a 
conflicted machine. It's a media consumption device, and if it's just 
that it's an expensive one. Not that Steve Jobs is likely to go broke 
by selling expensive toys, as the sales figures remind us. But 
alongside this it has a capability as a productivity tool, and it's 
here that the problems start to tumble out. That doesn't mean it 
doesn't have a value there, but it does mean that it has considerable 
potential to become an infuriating device to use.

So let's look at the infuriation: exchanging files, the iTunes 
tether, and the iPad's status as a big iPhone that can't make phone 
calls. These are all related. Apple won't let you anywhere near the 
iPad file system, and each app on the iPad has its own storage space. 
So if you've been using a file with one app, there's no way you can 
use it with another app without exporting it and then importing it 
into the other app. And how do you import and export?

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<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/07/ipad_file_transfer/>
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