Cool. If that was really your original point you made it quite unclearly.
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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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Apple doesn't understand optimal workflow anymore.
Local machine (internal) > Local Machine (external) > Local Wired network > Local Wireless network > interoffice network > Cloud (Internet).
The "Cloud" is worst possible option on every factor, save local area disaster (wild fire, tornado, asteroid strike). I used to see it all the time while working in an Elementary school, where the Internet and sometimes even the Inter-school connections would go down and torpedo a planned lesson. The teachers were good at their jobs and were prepared for the Interent to crap out on them, but it shows the point about need 100% uptime. Only Local connections can do that, where an onsite human get the systems back within minutes, or bridge a workaround.
Everything about Apple in the last 7 years shows this fundamental incomprehension. Including the "new" Mac Pro with its dinky little Apple-Proprietary SSDs and no space for anything but cramped M.2 NVME risers.
Local machine (internal) > Local Machine (external) > Local Wired network > Local Wireless network > interoffice network > Cloud (Internet).
The "Cloud" is worst possible option on every factor, save local area disaster (wild fire, tornado, asteroid strike). I used to see it all the time while working in an Elementary school, where the Internet and sometimes even the Inter-school connections would go down and torpedo a planned lesson. The teachers were good at their jobs and were prepared for the Interent to crap out on them, but it shows the point about need 100% uptime. Only Local connections can do that, where an onsite human get the systems back within minutes, or bridge a workaround.
Everything about Apple in the last 7 years shows this fundamental incomprehension. Including the "new" Mac Pro with its dinky little Apple-Proprietary SSDs and no space for anything but cramped M.2 NVME risers.
Yeah if you'd bother making AirDrop available as an open standard so I could actually use it on my other systems it would be great.
Not everyone is stuck in Apple's pretty little garden.
Perhaps, but for Apple to keep the Mac positioned as the first choice for creative work they need software investment geared toward the health of the entire platform rather than just a myopic view of P&L for an individual app. Stated differently, software sells hardware.
It's not an either/or situation. If you're even a bit careful about it, you can have both: local storage that's synced with an online service.
I have a 2TB iCloud quota and use iCloud Drive extensively -- but my main desktop Mac is set to keep everything in iCloud Drive and Photos downloaded to the hard drive, then backups are made to Time Machine. I also run a Carbon Copy Cloner backup to a drive I keep away from home in case of disaster. So realistically speaking every important file exists on at least three hard drives (internal on my iMac + Time Machine + offsite backup drive) and is uploaded to iCloud (or, for some stuff, Dropbox).
So, I've got iCloud access to everything, which is quite convenient, but I've also got a couple fail safe disk backups on my end.
I'm pretty fantatical about this. I got burglarized once and lost my Mac and its backup and I vowed to not let something like that happen again.
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That last sentence, that's literally a first.
But it 100% goes both ways. I just hear it a lot more from Apple users than I do from Android/Windows users.
Probably because he's rubbing the joke in the pain of years of frustration from dealing with real-world issues.
Who's talking about SCSI drives or floppies?
External hard drives are used extensively by people with actual, you know, large amounts of data to deal with and keep backed up. Always amazing to me how righteous people will get about features they don't personally need but others do. I don't need a 60MP full-frame DSLR, but you don't see me yapping on about how an iPhone camera is good enough for everyone -- which is basically what you're doing.
Simple solution, Apple should add an SD Card Slot. Problem solved. No need to use a wire to connect to ones camera, just remove the SD card and transfer away, one less thing to carry.
It's not funny from someone who's been selling 128GB laptops, 16GB phones (until recently), and 5GB iCloud storage. Who needs an external drive, right?
What would be a game changer is if one could backup their iOS device to an external drive without connect it to a computer or another device or even iCloud.
Apple also has an opportunity to sell an external storage case with battery, imagine having encrypted local additional storage and more battery for those long trips, no need for external connected ssd or a computer needed.
If they just read the article, it would really seem arrogant. But if you listen to the interview, it was really just a joke. Besides, he can’t admit that they are playing catch up. That’s plain stupid. They’re running a business.
For me the cloud is more of a dump spot for crap that doesn't matter. If my guilty pleasure which is The Carpenters full discography gets lost I will try to find the will to live. Important stuff is in both places and on a drive. I don't know too many people who back everything up after a TB or 2. Anyway it doesn't matter. We all do different things. I am sure somebody out there has every song they ever had and movie backed up. The only way you can lose something forever these days is if it is data you actually created.
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Hence the sincere appreciation I extended to you. I think we are done now.
Craig’s response is what is so wrong with these Silicon Valley people. They think everyone is so rich and rolling in so much dough that they’re willing to spend gobs extra for a smidgen of “convenience”. To say that external drives are so 90s is forgetting that cloud storage is a very recent thing. Also everyone I know(commoners to tech savvy) use external drives and cloud storage is only used for very limited uses such as compressed photos or music
Electricity was invented in 1879 and still works fine. At least 3.5mm jack doesn't have terrible 250ms lag of Airpods.
https://stephencoyle.net/airpods
Comparison of 40ms, 100ms and 220ms bluetooth latency
LOL this guy! "Well we designed a new way to recharge the Apple Pencil 2, and wanted to give our users another reason to possibly break their charging port: external flash drives. Inevitably, someone will break their drive off in the port."
Jobs was referring to physical keypads, where the keys can't be changed, not screen-based keypads.
And Apple moved the music industry forward to the point where renting actually makes sense. Back in the day, the experience of buying music online was a nightmare. Horrible websites, poor compatibility, lousy user experience. Apple turned that on its head with a simple, clean approach within iTunes, and then the industry evolved to the point where subscriptions, instead of one-off sales, makes more sense.
Does anybody know if Apple have announced which file formats the iPad will support? Most thumb drives are in FAT but I’m guessing AFS as well? Thanks
If you have everything backed up onto a 2tb hard drive, and 4 backups of that backup on separate drives, you'll still be spending less on hard drives than iCloud storage over a 3 year period.
