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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.
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.
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
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'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.
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).