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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.
It's another great innovation that makes the latest iPhone as sophisticated as Android were 5 years ago.
lucm, indeed.
And as sophisticated as most computers have been for longer than most of us have been alive.
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
I don't own any iDevices so not sure if such functionality is a big deal or not.
It is if you like what Microsoft has done with Surface Pro. Now the iPad an Surface Pro will be on a more level playing field in terms of features.
Personally, I'm fine without it but some folks hate not having FS access from their device and need to sort / manage their files.
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It reminds me of that exciting new feature in Oracle 12c (provided that you pay for an extra license): having multiple databases per Oracle instance. And, believe it or not, you can even attach/detach them!
Of course that feature was already available in SQL Server before it got acquired by Microsoft in 1993, but when Oracle "invented" it in 2013 it became The First Database Designed for the Cloud.
https://blogs.oracle.com/multi...
Hopefully History will disregard the hype and remember both of those companies (Oracle and Apple) as what they truly are: marketing companies that also happen to do below-average tech products.
lucm, indeed.
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.
not even close, the Ipad is still pretty much a dinky toy for anything but entertainment. The lack of application integration and management still leave it a long long way behind, but at least this is a half step in the right direction.
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.
i've never been a big fan of Samsung, always liked the Nexus or Moto better. But I bought a Tab S2 a few months ago and it's an amazing device, so I also bought a Samsung S8 phone recently and this is truly a masterpiece. I use the Google keyboard instead of the Samsung one, but apart from that all the built-in apps are top notch. The display is terrific and battery life is great (2 days).
I've used an iPhone for work and I owned several iPod Touch; I also owned an iPad Mini 4. And I don't miss those; they're not even in the same league as those Samsung devices.
The magic is not just in the performance, it's in the details. Such as creating a "safe zone" with the GPS where the phone never locks, or having that superb always-on display, or the iris scan unlock. They really think about making things convenient for the user, something Apple has lost touch with a long time ago as they switched their focus on milking their shrinking user base.
lucm, indeed.
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
I've worked with both for the better part of 20 years, and until recently the only reason I saw to choose Oracle over SQL Server would have been the O/S. But see, now SQL Server runs on Linux, so Oracle is basically obsolete, like Informix or Image. As for scaling, you probably missed that boat too but now there's new kids on the block for massive scale and Oracle is not on the radar. Even SQL Server powers more large scale websites (ex: Best Buy).
Oracle is not just obscenely expensive and feature-poor compared to the competition; it's also clunky and capricious. Just the fact that the query optimizer can lead to a SELECT COUNT query returning 2 different results on the same data set says it all. Just google "oracle same query different results" and you'll see countless examples; usually the "culprit" is using the parallel hint or having a date in the where clause, which apparently fools Oracle when it comes to deterministic vs non-deterministic hints. Of course usually there's some Oracle buffoon explaining that the problem is the user who wrote a "poor" query, but guess what, that's a behavior you'll never see even on MySQL or MS-Access.
Call it the 8th wonder of the world if you want, but if adding query hints makes a SELECT COUNT(*) return different results on a same data set, I call it a fucking piece of shit.
And it doesn't end with the database engine. The whole stack is garbage, starting with the OCI. Let's say you have a big Oracle database and you want to query it from Python using the marvelous cx_Oracle. Guess what: if there's CLOBs or BLOBs in the table, you can't use server-side cursors; you have to bring the whole fucking table in your Python app and deal with it. Meanwhile, this kind of thing works like a charm on Postgresql or SQL Server using 5 or 10 years old Python libraries; you can fetch whatever number of records you want at a time, no matter the data type.
My guess is that you're an Oracle DBA who pays his bills by "maintaining" Oracle databases. Good for you. But anyone who has to *use* one will tell you without a doubt what a slow, unreliable piece of garbage that database is.
lucm, indeed.
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.
You are an 8th grader. Oracle is not meant to run your website. There are no new kids on the block for ACID databases. You are confusing a database with a key-value store. Whatever it is you do, you are not a DBA. Me - I do storage. You know - those big storage arrays that the PB-sized 4-node active/active Oracle RAC has been sitting on for a decade running your whole company and the analytics for it.
The fact that the first example you jumped to is a website - yeah, don't use Oracle for a website. You're a moron.
iOS and Windows aren't even in the same league. If you need to do work, get a Surface. If you want to watch Netflix, get an iPad
If you gave me a choice between a printer and a giraffe with explosive diarrhoea, i'll get my ladder and my raincoat
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).
Whatever it is you do, you are not a DBA.
Correct. We get discount visa workers for grunt work.
lucm, indeed.
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.