appDude

And I bet some non Blackberry devices also.

av8rdude

I tried Photon out on a couple of LMS lessons and if worked fine. That doesn't mean that all LMS lessons will work, though. Some run fine on my MacBook Pro and others only appear in a tiny unuseable window. Go figure...

All run ok in my Windows Bootcamp partition.

Doogs

Sorry if I wasn't clear. Those carrying Blackberrys have been provided with a custom iOS provisioning profile for access to the pre-AXS wi-fi and Exchange servers, too, if I'm not mistaken.

TonyC

... because Apple assumes their users are too dumb to understand and navigate a file system.


That seems to be working for Apple, but it's another reason I won't buy one.






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Doogs

Every time I see somebody else's computer it seems to have every file saved to the desktop, which is so cluttered as to be unusable, so Apple's probably right for 95% of people out there. Whether stupidity, laziness, misunderstanding or simple disregard for organization by these folks, that's my observation.

Anyway Vive la capitalism! (and choice, and a healthy jailbreaking community!)

appDude

It is also part of their security model.
Each app gets it's own sandbox to play in.
A major part of how they are finally breaking in to the business and government markets.

olly

Never owned an Apple product. Perhaps just locked in a paradigm of thinking in a file & subfolder system, where I can have folder named 777, with a subfolder of manuals, another subfolder of training where I can have multiple file types. Pdf, .pptx, .docx, etc all in the same subfolder. So if I want that 777 study gouge I know it's in the 777 folder, training subfolder, cuz I may not recall if it was a pdf, or word.docx, but I know it's a 777 training file.

What I'm gathering in a Apple product, I have to open a pdf reader and search through a bunch of pdfs to find the desired file, is this correct? If I wanted to see the power point on the 777 would I have to open the ppt reader, then search thru all the ppts to find the desired 777 ppt file?

Is there a way in the ipad tho organize by topic, vs. File/app type? Like a windows/Android folder system where I can have folders by topic that can hold any type of file no matter what app created them.

Having worked in a gov job I have some folders that are GBs large, with multiple subfolders, and a mix of every type of ms office, and pdf file there is. I could not imagine opening ms word to find the one of hundreds of .docx files, only to think what I was looking for may have been saved as a pdf. I can just go to the topic, the logical subfolder, & find the desired file, & relevant to a gov worker, there are usually other files in that category/topic subfolder (perhaps created in a different app) that are relevant.

Huck

I'm not sure what ya'll are talking about. My Mac has a file management program. "Finder." It's got folders and subfolders just like DOS.

If I need a file and don't remember what type it is, I just type the name into the search window in Finder. Click on the file and whatever program responsible for it will start up.

As for the Ipad, I don't know. I flew with one for one trip, then gave it to my wife. I jumped off the train when they started telling me to email files to myself. But I guess that ol' train is once more pulling out of the station and I'm going to be forced on it again.....

iarapilot

Apple- You will use our product the way we want you to. You dont have the option to see the file system and organize things the way you want because we feel that you arent smart enough to, and it is for your (our) own security.

Android-You can organize how you like; we could care less. If you dont want to be organized it is not our problem. You bought it, you own it, so do as you want.

Collectivism vs individualism

MaydayMark

In between flying jobs I was a cruise missile engineer. We all had both Mac's and PC's on our desks .... NOBODY used the PC's?

Enough said?