iPad 2 owners: what feature(s) would make you upgrade to iPad 3?

[Kissaragi]

A retina, or retina like display is probably the only thing that would make me upgrade this cycle.

 

[anthonymoody]

I agree. iOS needs some way to share files amongst applications. If I create a document in Pages or Numbers or Keynote or some third party application why can't I easily see it in iBooks or Goodreader, just for example.

I somehow think that Apple doesn't want this. They want to say that you have books and photos and videos and music and presentations and spread sheets and they all live in separate applications so you don't need to share them.

That philosophy led them to come up with the media tabs in the inspectors in Keynote and Pages and Numbers and iMovie. They hide the file system and give you access to what they think you need. This is convenient, but incomplete. What if I need something non-standard? What if I want to drag in some text I took as notes in a third party program to use in a Keynote presentation. I have to use cut and paste as there is no way to find a .txt file from Keynote.

Kudos to Apple for trying to think around the file system, but they need to give us access to our data somehow.

Exactly. My biggest issue with this is that it is a forced type of organization, one that is very different from the way my mind happens to want to sort my stuff. I tend to want to sort by topic, not by file type. E.g. Documents relating to my home could consist of a spreadsheet tracking household expenses, scans of tax and utility bills, before/after photos of renovations, PDF bills from contractors, etc. I put them all in a folder called House or whatever. On ios there is no in built way to sort this way.

As I said, Dropbox/dropDAV/iWork works well enough for me. I have everything on my household iMac, sort of server style; it's all synced by and stored in Dropbox, and dropDAV allows me to get stuff in and out of Dropbox easily on the iPad.

But I'm pretty sure apple's solution would be better if only they'd put their minds to it! So far, they don't seem so inclined