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Apple's New iOS File Manager Coming This Fall As Part of iOS 11 (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Apple announced the new file manager today. A demo showed that the application will provide access to local files and files in cloud storage services such as Dropbox, iCloud Drive, and Box. It will support nested folders, favorites, search, tags, and a list view in which files can be sorted by size and date. You'll also be able to drag and drop with other applications, for example by dragging an attachment from e-mail into the file manager. The new manager will be part of iOS 11, shipping this fall.
Hows about next year saving up all the action and dropping one article at the end of the day? Mmmkay?
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have backups to corrupt.
I don't own any iDevices so not sure if such functionality is a big deal or not.
Let me guess,
(c)Invented in California(tm).(R)
The big deal is how the apple apologists will spin this as we all have been told for years apple doesn't need a file manager.
They're good at dealing with cognitive dissonance.
If you remember, the fanbois used to make fun of the big screens on the Samsung phones, saying that the iPhone was the "right" size. Then the big iPhone 6 came out and suddenly big screens were cool.
lucm, indeed.
Windows Explorer... right down to the Namespaces on the left.... careful... MS has a patent on that tech.
wow so a feature every other OS has had in both mobile and desktop version for years. The sad part is one news site had this and their new copy cat home speaker thingie as ground breaking in innovations, shows what a blinkered and sad world some journalists live in.
Why does every Apple article say will be shipped, I thought that Ios was only available preinstalled or via downloaded upgrade? Does this mean that they are actually going to be shipping just the operating system?
John
Holy shit that's amazing. First iPhone gets cut and paste, and now a drag and drop file manager, it's like 1984 all over again.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
This Apple must be full of genius wizards; who'da thunk peoples would want to be able to access files on their mobile computers^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdevices???!!111
Why is this even news? A new file manager? Got to be fucking kidding me.
I feel like I jumped into a DeLorean and arrived in the 1980s !
As pathetically overdue as it is, I am grateful. Don't blame me; I'm using a hand-me-down phone.
Typical /. dumbass millennials
The depressing thing is thinking back to how many Millennials have never used a Spatial Finder at all... like ever.
*sigh* They probably don't remember Sad Mac icons either :(
Yes, get off my lawn.
Hire a Linux system administrator, systems engineer,
I hope the api is open so that people can build their own in... something like ownCloud ?
webdav can be useful and caching would be great... conflict resolution with dropbox/icloud/box is going to be fun...
anyone seen the API ?
thanks
John Jones
Now my $900 iPad Pro can have the same functionality as my $350 Chromebook... almost. I still can't run a full desktop OS in a chroot jail on the iPad Pro, but I guess... now I can look at the files? So... that's good?
Not that I don't love my iPad Pro; I do, but... come on, Apple, your whole excuse for not giving us a file manager from the very start was security. I suppose you don't care about that anymore? That, or that excuse was a load of crap (yup) and you figured out a way to provide a file manager that doesn't actually access files... I guess, if your security excuse wasn't a complete lie and the file manager you provide is actually useful, we'll see a chroot jail on the iPad sooner, rather than later, so time will ultimately tell.
What interesting times we live in.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
Apple is ridiculous. Who else would introduce basic functionality ten years late and call it innovation?
I've had an iPad for years. It boots fast, it's portable, and less hassle than my laptop. Yet, when I want to do anything, I fire up the laptop. Of the shortcomings of the tablet, the lack of a file system was the biggest.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
I mean hierarchical filesystems have been around a very very long time.
I know surely dozens, perhaps a hundred Mac and iDevice users.
Never met a fanboi, though.
Is that an american specimen?
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
Then the iPhone SE came out and people realized big screens were not cool, they only bought phones with big screens because they had the nicest hardware. (Until the SE, every phone sub 4" screen was compromised in not nice ways).
The iPhone SE was something that took Apple for surprise - everyone was telling Apple they wanted huge screens and iPhones sucked because they lacked a big screen. So Apple followed what the market said and released big screen phones. However, they noticed that not everyone wanted a big screen - there appeared to be a few people who hung onto their tiny screen phones and refused to upgrade. So Apple created the SE to appease this small (and vocal) market. What they didn't expect was how popular it turned out to be - a significant number of people wanted a new phone, but not if it meant going to a big screen, which is why the SE was way underproduced.
(And I've seen people who can't even two-handedly use a big screen phone. They are holding it by both edges and neither hand can cover the entire screen while holding the phone - they need one hand to hold it by the edge while the other one touches it).
Everyone is freaking out about how they're so late to the party, what about security, etc etc, but lets hold on a sec.
Has anyone *actually* see this tool in operation? Does it *actually* expose the local file system, or does it just display files from applications that tie into some "File Manager" API?
I'm going to reserve judgement until I've actually seen this thing in action.
Also, I just want to say that anyone making fun of Apple's previous refusal to make the raw file system accessible to users, has clearly never had to do tech support where someone decided the best place for their personal files was in a system directly, which was then promptly wiped out during an upgrade. We have to remember that the people on slashdot are (typically) more tech savvy than the average consumer, and my expectation is that this file manager will be limited so that said average consumer won't shoot themselves in the foot.
Here, get educated courtesy of the Oatmeal.
If you're saying that a DBA "architects" payroll, billing/payables and ordering systems, then either you work for your mom's used furniture store, or you're completely full of shit. All major enterprise software packages come with very specific requirements for the database layer; the only "architecting" a DBA would do in that context is pointing at one of the 2 supported database products, then tell the SAN guy how big the LUN has to be - and usually the company will bring in someone else to do that.
As for money: the Oracle DBA team at work got outsourced following the advice of our trusted European slavers (one of the "Big Four"). There's been basically no difference for the business except saving money, because the handful of applications that still require Oracle all come with the vendor's own guidelines and maintenance/tuning instructions and even the Budapest and Bangalore lowest bidders can run plsql scripts and sit in front of Oracle Management Cloud, and they do it for less money than a shift supervisor at McDonalds; we only see one or two of them who act as "team leads". And those databases are for support functions anyways, such as the ones you mention (payroll, etc) which themselves are in the process of being outsourced to various SaaS and third-party services.Those that can't are migrated to SQL Server on AWS RDS, where it's also a low-cost engineer that does the DBA work; it's included in the price tag.
All the value-added software created by the company for its core business runs on modern databases, such as MongoDB or Accumulo. Since most apps were using Hibernate or some kind of ORM, the dev teams basically just got rid of the middleman. Not having to force an object model in the rigid structure of antiquated data storage technologies (i.e. Oracle RDBMS) allows the developers to focus on features that bring value to the organization, instead of spending their time begging DBAs to "update statistics" or "add indexes" because Oracle is slow as a pack of crippled donkeys.
If you're truly a DBA, you probably have another 3-5 years to milk your clueless employer before they figure out how useless you are. All the market trends published over the last few years clearly indicate that the RDBMS are becoming obsolete and that Oracle is losing its share of that dwindling market. Your boss (and/or mom) is bound to stumble upon one of those studies sooner than later.
lucm, indeed.