New iPad Pro with M2

Re:New iPad Pro with M2 by scarface74 on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @04:01PM (#33253047)

You can’t connect a laptop to another laptop and treat it like a drive. Why expect anything different from a phone that’s really a computer?

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Re:New iPad Pro with M2 by bluescrn on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @05:35PM (#33254328)

If it was a real computer with a 'real OS', I'd be able to easily set up network shares and transfer files over wifi, without even plugging a cable in.

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Re:New iPad Pro with M2 by scarface74 on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @05:39PM (#33254390)

Well I can transfer files wirelessly via AirDrop to my Mac.

You can do it with a third party app

https://mobiletrans.wondershare.com/iphone-transfer/transfer...

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Re:New iPad Pro with M2 by chipotle_coyote on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @08:02PM (#33255738)

I've been using real computers with real OSes for a very, very long time, and when someone says "hey, could you send that file to me," I confess my first thought is not, "Why, sure! Let me just configure a network share that you can mount on your system to do it, because that is obviously the easiest possible way I have at my disposal!"

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Re:New iPad Pro with M2 by hollandheese on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @07:44PM (#33255599)

Yes you can. It's called Target Disk Mode on the Mac.

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Re:New iPad Pro with M2 by scarface74 on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @09:18PM (#33256251)

Yes and you can also easily share files from an iPhone over Wifi on a Mac. That isn’t possible on a Windows PC either.

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