Just sent tim an email, although he'll probably never read it. Basically, I told him to make Apple's internal chaos less visible to customers.
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Apple Forces Transmit to Remove Send to iCloud Drive Feature, Blocks All Share Sheet File Transfers in the Process
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Wow. Why doesn't just write the #$%& code for us? Then we might know what is allowed and disallowed.
Between Apple and typical Apple customers, developers are getting closer to not bothering with the platform at all.
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He won't read it, he's too busy curled up in the corner crying.
Between Apple and typical Apple customers, developers are getting closer to not bothering with the platform at all.
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He won't read it, he's too busy curled up in the corner crying.
Don't hold your breath waiting for a refund, Apple removed iphoto with ios8 and millions of users and did not refund their money.
ICloud Drive is total pants. It's next to useless.
A brilliant idea put into practice by a 12 year old (no offence to 12 year olds)!
A brilliant idea put into practice by a 12 year old (no offence to 12 year olds)!
yes, and more important readdle's pdf expert.
solution for transmit: everyone who updated to the latest version can go through their time machine backups and extract the old version of transmit with the sharing capabilities!
Apple is just looking out for the security and integrity of their platform. This is in the interests of all consumers.
People in this thread seem to be making a bigger deal of this issue than even Panic - the developers of the app. I think that says it all really. People are blowing this out of all proportion simply because its Apple.
Obviously its regrettable if even a few people/developers switch to Android as a result of this, but the bigger picture 99.999% of us remain happy and delighted as iOS users and would never consider switching.
People in this thread seem to be making a bigger deal of this issue than even Panic - the developers of the app. I think that says it all really. People are blowing this out of all proportion simply because its Apple.
Obviously its regrettable if even a few people/developers switch to Android as a result of this, but the bigger picture 99.999% of us remain happy and delighted as iOS users and would never consider switching.
I love people that "know" all about me. You should be a psychic, you're just as accurate.
Please tell me you're being sarcastic. The only people who benefit from boneheaded moves like this are Apple's competitors.
Marco Arment nails it:
If that is the case why can you upload any file you like from the Finder in Yosemite?
Can't believe this has only got 88 comments on, there should be uproar about this to try and get Apple to reverse the decision. PcCalc I wasn't bothered about because I could kind of understand they didn't want people putting full apps in the dropdown notification menu, its not what its for, its a bit tacky and it drains battery - but this is a ridiculous decision and at least they reversed the PcCalc one.
OS X is a different world.
I obviously don't know the precise reasons why Apple has taken this stance on iOS in this specific case. But everything we know about them says they sweat the small details and take an extremely careful approach to ensuring they protect the security of their platforms and privacy of all consumers. I doubt this is a decision they have taken lightly.
I will never understand how being allowed to have certain sharing functionality in a certain app of mine would affect you or anyone else who might not be interested in the app in the first place.
It doesn't make any sense though. It's like putting high security locks on your front door and leaving your back door wide open.
Apple should shut iCloud Drive down and lock themselves in a room for a few days and come up with something that not only works but is also useful too. Then relaunch it as iOS 8.2 or even 9.
At the moment it's just a bowl of spaghetti!
At the moment it's just a bowl of spaghetti!
Why don't they just admit that they only want icloud for you to backup your photos, itunes music/media, and email, and call it a wrap. The chances of them ever catching up with Google drive or Dropbox are slipping each time they do this sort of thing. Either clean house, and start anew, or just admit that you want the cloud as locked down as it was previously.
The iPad Pro is going to be totally DOA at this rate - iOS is fine for pure media consumption, but way too restrictive for actual work/productivity tasks to get done on it. The Surface Pro will make a total mockery of the iPad Pro.
Its also mostly useless for business - you can't even get an app like WiFi Explorer on to an iPad to do a wireless site survey, which is something the hardware is totally capable of - unless you use a jailbroken device.
People mentioned Coda - the Mac App Store could be a lot more successful, but sandboxing limits the type of apps that can really be served up on the app store. You won't get apps that need to touch the lower levels of the OS, and there's that text editor that can't even edit system text files, etc.
The App Store unfortunately forces apps to be crippleware. For iOS devices, unless jailbroken, its like a Ferrari running with 4 tiny spare donut tires from a compact car.
Its also mostly useless for business - you can't even get an app like WiFi Explorer on to an iPad to do a wireless site survey, which is something the hardware is totally capable of - unless you use a jailbroken device.
People mentioned Coda - the Mac App Store could be a lot more successful, but sandboxing limits the type of apps that can really be served up on the app store. You won't get apps that need to touch the lower levels of the OS, and there's that text editor that can't even edit system text files, etc.
The App Store unfortunately forces apps to be crippleware. For iOS devices, unless jailbroken, its like a Ferrari running with 4 tiny spare donut tires from a compact car.
I wonder if they track the number of iCloud drive users vs Dropbox or any other service?
It seems like there would be some key insights if they do.
It seems like there would be some key insights if they do.
I think the message is quite clear. Apple doesn't give a **** about people that want to use their iOS devices for technical work. Same goes with Mac App Store apps. At least with the Mac App Store you often have a non-crippled option on the developer's website.
We are in the nearly insignificant minority of the customer base though. That is, people in technical fields wanting to use iDevices for technical work. There is always jailbreaking, but I often wonder why we should have to.
I wish Apple could loosen the reigns a little and trust people to make their own decisions. Heck, maybe have a guarded API section where any apps linking against certain libraries require a waiver agreement when downloading them from the App Store. Just put a toggle that defaults to on in the App Store settings for hiding those apps from search results.