But can we copy images, movies etc from the usb stick onto local storage on the ipad directly?
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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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I wonder how many actually listened before they commented.
I agree. Nobody can stand that mindset; well, unless they also have that mindset.
Actually, that workflow is largely a sneaker net workflow and is a product of the 90s. The camera makers have done a very poor job of working/solving/improving the workflow of images after capture.
And attracts others like me. Because what he said is the truth.
That would interfere with their perceived slights.
Apple arrogant design and this arrogant attitude is what turns off so many people away from Apple.
The way Apple neglect and ignore users needs is pathetic. It took them 6 years to acknowledge they made a huge mistake with the trashcan.
Someone tell Craig F that
The Mac Pro trashcan was not that great.
The Macbook Pro (2016+) was not that good either.
Someone tell Craig F. that Surface Tablets can run full Windows OS, and has better file management
while iPad Pros only runs iOS and file management is pretty bad.
The way Apple neglect and ignore users needs is pathetic. It took them 6 years to acknowledge they made a huge mistake with the trashcan.
Someone tell Craig F that
The Mac Pro trashcan was not that great.
The Macbook Pro (2016+) was not that good either.
Someone tell Craig F. that Surface Tablets can run full Windows OS, and has better file management
while iPad Pros only runs iOS and file management is pretty bad.
No, because it was a niche market that becomes smaller and smaller each year. Apple saw it first and pivoted. Keeping it competitive against Adobe and Phase One in a shrinking market would require increasing resources with decreasing revenue.
Well, you are Hank Moody... you are in another level my man.
It was a JOKE for chrissake. Get a grip. At least Apple recognized there is still a significant use-case to adding external drives to iPads, and is acknowledging it is long overdue.
The arrogance is from posters like you who think you are entitled to tell Apple to do whatever you want and expect them to jump.
In the 90s we shot on film/tape and had to wait for a transfer. The card workflow is godsend but I don't blame camera manufactures for not inventing some magical wireless that beams the footage at unheard of data rates from the camera anywhere in the world to a hard drive without fail when a simple cheap and highly reliable SD card will do.
There's an easy solution to that: backing up. I have about 24 TB of stuff on external drives, half of that is the actual data I use, and the other half is the backup.
Now imagine storing 12TB in the cloud, and having to wait hours or days each time you want to access it, vs. just working directly off of it if it were on local hard drives. And not to mention having to pay for it forever, with the threat that if you ever stop paying, all your data will be deleted. No such risk with hard drives.
I think the cloud is great for calendars and email, and light stuff that needs to be synced across multiple devices. But for storing massive libraries of files? What's the point? It's just going to be too slow to be of any use. Even for a backup, it's too damn slow.
Yes that's my point there are a lot of idiots out there doing just that. Thank you for clarifying my original point.
And yet your signature boasts about all the products you have spent money on to have an upgraded level of storage.
I didn’t indicate that they made zero improvements and I didn’t imply magical wireless capabilities.
But if you don’t think the camera makers have failed at workflow post-capture then great. It works for you because you accommodated yourself to what they allow. I, for one, would enjoy having more than a 8.3 file name with only the first 4 chars being customized, being able to annotate/tag events and destinations in camera, having files transmit automatically once connected (wires or otherwise) to a computer with it performing various tasks as needed, etc.
I understand that solution. I just noticed how many people think because they are using a back up drive their stuff is backed up. I often ridicule my friend for being so tech illiterate.
I don’t disagree with your point, but Apple is hardly suffering for low sales and income. One of the wealthiest companies in the world means LOTS of people are willing “touching” great Apple products. Most companies only dream of their success.
Arrogance and uppityness is also by users of none Apple products as well. Most of my Windows friends are EXTREMELY arrogant about their choice for using Windows. Their comments usually run “oh, you use Apple products, WEEELL, do you not know there is Apple then the rest of the world!”? From there they their attitudes goes downhill in a very condescending snippety manner. A few friends use Android, they behave the same, most often I hear “Hah, I never would drink the Apple Kool-Aid, something is wrong with you and your Apple cult”, and the like.
What I have often witnessed is a Windows person negatively comment on Apple then when Apple user attempts to explain their reason for using Apple products, the Windows users quickly get their panties in a wad. Never have I seen nor heard a Apple user belittle a Windows user (as Windows users belittle Apple users) for using Windows.
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I could not agree more. Take your floppy drives and scuzzy ports back to the past. Apple is a company for the future.
Willing to acknowledge the 1990s for I/O and external devices people actually use?
Great! When's the 3.5mm headphone jack coming back?
Great! When's the 3.5mm headphone jack coming back?
The cloud isn't safe either, and your cloud data should be backed up also.
A few years back, my whole iTunes Match library disappeared, all songs I purchased and ones that I collected over many years. I had a back up of almost every song, but called Apple Support to find out what happened.
They were able to get me all the songs I purchased of course, but said there was nothing they could do about my iCloud Library, and said that Apple is not responsible to lost data on their cloud services.
Even with having a back up of external drives, it would still be cheaper than Apple's cloud storage, which a smart person would still back up.
Almost 10 years waiting for external drive support. I wouldn’t call it a joke
This is part of what's wrong with Apple the last 5 years or so. They are so arrogant and don't listen to what the people who use there products want and need to use them the way they want to. Case in point, though to a much lesser importance, 12 versions of iOS before they finally changed the volume control display.
Nothing wrong with features as long as decent amount of people want to use it and external drives is a no brainer should have.