Re:IPad: an Apple for Mom - The uncomputer for the people
by maurycy on Thursday January 28, 2010 @01:16PM
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You have to have a filesystem for this, though. At least, if you download from some random source, w/o any official application.
From what I see, there's no classical filesystem on Apple iPad - just per application resources - so it won't work easily.
Obviously, there are some fixes to this particular problem. However, keep in mind, that I just wanted to give few examples of possible confusions.
Without the actual device, it's hard to give more specific examples of complains.
Re:IPad: an Apple for Mom - The uncomputer for the people
by Locke1689 on Thursday January 28, 2010 @02:28PM
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There's a classical filesystem. Trust me. You may not see it, but it's there.
Re:IPad: an Apple for Mom - The uncomputer for the people
by maurycy on Friday January 29, 2010 @06:22AM
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There's nearly always a filesystem. It is not visible on iPad, though. I talk only about usability and user's perspective.
No need to go into details. From the hackerish perspective, the internals of iPad might be nothing but BSD/Mach combined with touch screen.
Actually, the downloader utilities from eMusic and Amazon pretty much inject those things directly into iTunes.