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0 pointsdTal7y ago0 comments

I'm not going to debate you in three places at once, that's just obnoxious and clutters the thread.

Ultimately this is an argument about the precise semantics of "removable storage". I don't regard an MTP device as "removable storage" - it's another computer that one speaks to using a special protocol, with severe limitations. So is an iPhone - with special, protocol-speaking software, you can certainly put arbitrary files on it. I interpreted the parent to mean that they wanted to plug the phone in to "any PC" and have it Just Work. MTP isn't so great at that, especially from my perspective as a Linux user, where MTP support is no more built-in than iOS-protocol support. From this standpoint, "removable storage" == "USB mass storage".

On the other hand, it sounds like whatever Apple provides is much worse even than MTP, and less well supported in general.

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TulliusCicero7y ago

> Ultimately this is an argument about the precise semantics of "removable storage". I don't regard an MTP device as "removable storage"

This is absurd. You don't get to tell someone, "you're wrong", then later when it's pointed out that the original assertion was actually true, then say, "oh, I meant that you're wrong as long as we're using my version of the word, the one that's very different from the one everyone else was using."

Sorry, but that's blatantly disingenuous. The original context was very clear. If you really meant, "well it sort of works as removable storage in one sense, but not in this other sense" you should've just said that to begin with.

dTalOP7y ago

Well, I'm sorry to have upset you, and I hope that the precise technical situation is now clear to anyone reading this thread.

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