The walls are crashing at Apple like Berlin Wall.
Now add SD card slot across the board.
Now add SD card slot across the board.
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Craig Federighi on iPad's Long-Awaited External Drive Support: 'We're Willing to Acknowledge the 1990s'
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It's an old joke from Enterprise Days. Craig as an old colleague of mine at Apple and prior, NeXT is well versed in hard drives and their requirement as part of the equation for computing, on all levels, in various types, from disc to solid state.
Is that why Aperture was discontinued, because it was sooo 2000’s?
He means 10’ between you and the screen.
Just come with some data if you're making bold statements. "So many people" is just a euphemism for making something up. iPad dominates the tablet market, so any shortcoming thus far have not deterred the market from speaking. It was a minor inconvenience at best, particularly with iCloud.
Them backtracking on things like this is proof that enough of their customers have needs beyond what Apple dictates. That or their competitors are luring them away.
This feature is not for you.
You ever seen low profile thumbdrive? It doesn't stick out much more than iPad protruding camera bump. Better yet, they can also adopt SD card slot like the rest of the industry.
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Yeah because the iPad's super expensive and tiny storage is just enough to store literally everything you'd ever want to do on an iPad at once? It's funny how the iPad has had all these semi-pro photo and video editing capabilities but the fact that these massive files need to be stored somewhere has been completely ignored until now.
Your RAW photo library alone may take up terabytes, not to mention video. If you want to get any work done on a machine, not being able to connect it to storage is going to make that impossible.
Oh, and good luck working in real time from terabytes of video files stored in the cloud. Even the fastest internet connection is too slow for that, but even then not everyone has a fast connection.
On an average day I may fill up a 128 GB SD card or two, it takes enough time to copy it to two hard drives, I can't even imagine spending two days moving it to the cloud, and then another two downloading it from the cloud when I need it. There's faster, better technology out there, called external drives.
Your RAW photo library alone may take up terabytes, not to mention video. If you want to get any work done on a machine, not being able to connect it to storage is going to make that impossible.
Oh, and good luck working in real time from terabytes of video files stored in the cloud. Even the fastest internet connection is too slow for that, but even then not everyone has a fast connection.
On an average day I may fill up a 128 GB SD card or two, it takes enough time to copy it to two hard drives, I can't even imagine spending two days moving it to the cloud, and then another two downloading it from the cloud when I need it. There's faster, better technology out there, called external drives.
This just shows you how much of a bubble so many developers are in -- as if everyone is always on very good wifi or has a great cell signal. Out in the world there are plenty of edge cases, plenty of times when internet is flaky and a fast and reliable hard connection to a big pool of storage saves the day.
'We're Willing to Acknowledge the 1990s'
... or how about 'We're willing to acknowledge not everyone is a multi-millionaire who can afford all the latest compatible Apple products, unlimited cloud storage, maxed out internal storage, and don't live in a bubble where all our friends and family also exclusively use Apple products only'
... or how about 'We're willing to acknowledge not everyone is a multi-millionaire who can afford all the latest compatible Apple products, unlimited cloud storage, maxed out internal storage, and don't live in a bubble where all our friends and family also exclusively use Apple products only'
My friend says the same thing as you. He has 12 TB of hard drives. I asked him is your stuff also backed up and what happens when a drive breaks? I have had many drives fail especially in tropical places. So over the years one by one his drives will fail and he will lose his content.
But it shows a certain arrogance (sorry "courage") not uncommon with Apple in its hardware and software choices.
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Only an idiot puts anything important on only one drive.
So, if it is okay to go back to the 90s with external storage, why not go back 5 years to headphone jacks?
I shot around 85gigs of footage one day recently with a client (that wasn't a lot either). Would been real nice to take that SD card and plug it into an ipad to review and copy off footage to the external drive for the client to walk with. But apparently that workflow is 'stuck in the 90s' and somehow magical wireless is supposed to take care of that amount of data out in the field. Sure we did it with a macbook pro, but it's overkill for that and an Ipad would be perfect for that use.
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Note to Craig: The first USB Thumb drive came out in 2000.
If they really want the iPad to replace MacBooks (which is what they are doing) - they need to support external drives.
I agree. People need thicker skin. Howevah, the joke does show a lack of awareness of the audience. It doesn't come across as funny. It reminds me of WWDC and the stand's price announcement... lack of awareness of the audience.
Really?? So you know a lot of people personally that refuse to use an Apple product because they think Federighi is arrogant? How exactly did that conversation go down? I'm curious. BTW, if you watch any of the competitor's events, they all do the same thing.
Well at least Apple is willing to make some changes. thats a good thing.
bunch of negative nannies here man.
relax its all good.
bunch of negative nannies here man.
relax its all good.
Being unable to import photos directly into Lightroom was my number one issue with the iPad by quite some distance. Lightroom Mobile is an excellent tool for photography, and this makes it work as it should. I have my iPhone photos in Apple Photos and my DSLR RAW images in Lightroom. Imagine the headaches having to import RAW images into Photos first caused. Crazy. Glad they finally got there.
Seriously, screw that comment. If Apple wasn't charging $800 to go from 128 GB to 1 TB on the MacBook Pro for example, maybe people wouldn't need external storage. But for $800 I can get almost 6 TB worth of SSD on a DAS.
Craig seems to live in a world where everything can be put in the cloud with as much convenience as having local storage...
Craig seems to live in a world where everything can be put in the cloud with as much convenience as having local storage...
100%. Their attitude, along with people that use Apple products that act like they're on a higher plane of existence, is something I cannot stand. Mainly attitudes towards people that choose to use Android, Windows or Linux. Or people that choose to use a combination.
Honestly, I do think he is trying to simply just be funny, but I already know people, like my co-worker, who will take this to heart saying things like "yea he is right. People need to just let the 90s go and embrace what Apple is pushing us towards." I cannot stand that mindset.
