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Re:Surface Go 2, Surface Book 3, Surface Headphones 2 and Su... by Ididntdothis on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @01:37PM (#23093929)
“Apple’s Files app solves mostly solves that for me.“

It’s better but it’s still riddled with arbitrary restrictions. For example when I want to watch a MKV video in iCloud I have to copy the file from iCloud to the folder of the player, then delete. Can’t open iCloud files directly with the player and can’t move either.

On the bright side I am confident by 2025 in iOS we will have the same functionality we had already thirty years ago... with the exception that every piece of software will be charged with the 30% Apple tax.

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Re:Surface Go 2, Surface Book 3, Surface Headphones 2 and Su... by msh on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @02:40PM (#23094718)
Using infuse (a video player app) I can open files from icloud directly.
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Re:Surface Go 2, Surface Book 3, Surface Headphones 2 and Su... by HumblyTossed on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @05:11PM (#23096348)
Wow, that's a $60 app (or $10 per year). I wonder how much of the code for that is actually open source.
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Re:Surface Go 2, Surface Book 3, Surface Headphones 2 and Su... by thirdsun on Thursday May 07, 2020 @06:07AM (#23101382)
It's a quality app and there's also a free version that might be enough for OP if his codecs are supported.
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Re:Surface Go 2, Surface Book 3, Surface Headphones 2 and Su... by msh on Thursday May 07, 2020 @06:31AM (#23101506)
The free version I think will suit most people. It's what I use.
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Re:Surface Go 2, Surface Book 3, Surface Headphones 2 and Su... by Ididntdothis on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @03:06PM (#23094998)
How?
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Re:Surface Go 2, Surface Book 3, Surface Headphones 2 and Su... by msh on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @03:48PM (#23095478)
Settings->Add files->via documents

That open the icloud browser (wierd name)

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Re:Surface Go 2, Surface Book 3, Surface Headphones 2 and Su... by Ididntdothis on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @05:28PM (#23096520)
It works but it’s quite clunky. Either you have to copy over when you play directly the video it’s not in the library. Definitely not very intuitive or simple.
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