Forget Jailbreaking, Cloud Services Are What Are Building A Usable File System For iOS | Cult of Mac

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Forget Jailbreaking, Cloud Services Are What Are Building A Usable File System For iOS | Cult of Mac

It seems that every week for the past few months, there’s been at least one or two announcements of app developers, cloud service providers, and mobile management vendors developing strategic partnerships to create or integrate their products into a single unified workflow.

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Lane Jasper

I'm not seeing how any of this is warranting a "forget jailbreaking" in the headline.....Jailbreaking is very little a point of any of the topic discussed here whatsoever.

mr_bee

You realise this makes no sense right?

You are arguing that Apple is wrong to not include a file system, that instead it want's you to use iCloud instead, but also that this awful situation is going to be fixed by "third parties" who will use a ... wait for it .... cloud service, (!) to fix this.

WTF?

How is iCloud, (Apple's cloud file system), not exactly the same thing? Obviously there are differences between cloud services and so forth and the "third party" ones might be better in your opinion, but in fact you didn't actually make that argument.

Kingsmuse

Drop Box solved this problem for me long ago.

To answer the question of how iCloud isn`t the same thing is simple, iCloud is just like IOS in general, it does all the work, there`s no way to actually manipulate, move, or organize files.

I`m an Apple fan but they`re really missing the boat with their intent to destroy the file system.

Frank Lowney

The other important aspect of this discussion has to do with sharing those files with all the world or a definable subset of the population. MobileMe and iWork.com provided some very nice ways of sharing photos (Gallery), documents (iWork) and other files (iDisk) but iCloud has no such capability. It's as if Apple is assuming that we are all egomaniacs who have no desire to share anything. That doesn't sound like a very perceptive point of view to me.