iTunes hasn’t worked well on any platform in over a decade.
What other devices perform all of the backup, restore, and os upgrade, functionality of iTunes.
The iPhone doesn’t use the standard “usb mass storage” protocol to allow you to download pictures. It uses the picture transfer protocol.
I've never claimed anything about any other functions of iTunes. I just said it was a problem that Apple devices make it difficult to get your data off using only local transfer.
The iPhone doesn’t use the standard “usb mass storage” protocol to allow you to download pictures. It uses the picture transfer protocol.
Yes, exactly like your camera, as I said.
We already have a good, properly secured backup system that we use for all our workstations and servers. We just want to be able to export data from any mobile devices we use and manage that data using the same policies and tools. In most cases, that is straightforward. The one big exception is the iOS devices.
And this is the same myopic geek viewpoint that came out with the iPod “Less space than the Nomad. No wireless lame.”
Do you actually believe that most people have a good backup solution at all? Is that really what you are suggesting for a general backup solution?
That’s just like when DropBox was introduced and people on HN came up with a convoluted Rube Goldberg solution that they could do themselves.
I'm saying that iCloud isn't properly encrypted, which for some people and organisations will be a problem, and that it is then a greater problem for those people and organisations that it is unusually difficult to transfer data between iOS devices and other systems through other means because of the inhibiting choices that Apple has made.
It's much like the argument that the default behaviour for consumer software should normally be to install security updates automatically, but installation of updates should still be configurable for those who do know what they're doing and need more control over their systems.
I doubt many businesses are using iWorks with iCloud.
Let me know when iPhones and iPads support standard plug and play protocols that work universally without relying on either Apple's proprietary and frequently broken software or someone else's commercial alternative that attempts to do what Apple should have been doing all along.