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0 pointsstormbeta5y ago0 comments

I own an iPad Pro 11.

I don't think it's just you - there's a lot of basic everyday functionality that is pointlessly difficult and cumbersome in iOS.

E.g. data management is still the worst of any modern OS by a huge margin, and data sharing between apps is still a half-broken mess. Even things that _should_ work with straightforward data types often don't - e.g. you can't share audiobooks to iBooks even though it can play them, or trying to share an image to an art app might simply open the app with no indication of where the image went or what went wrong. Lack of default apps means you often have to open files the long way around through a convoluted series of download/share steps. These are all things that work fine on Android, and were never a problem on desktop OSes to begin with.

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third_I5y ago

That's exactly how I remember it. It was bad.

I had heard that there was a file exploring app now however, doesn't that make everything easier? My idea was to just use SyncThing¹ as I do on Android, and I was thinking I could just open things from there in any app.

Thanks a lot for this account, it really helped confirming my personal bias regarding this (I mean 'bias' neutrally, neither good nor bad just mine).

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1: Actually I just checked, there is no iOS client for SyncThing... And no plan to either. (I assume it's a limitation of the system and so is true for all such apps like Seafile, NextCloud...)

So yeah, nope. That's a showstopper for me. My entire information system (like any IS worth its salt) is based on having plain access to files... I honestly though that was long solved on iOS. Misinformation from the media, I guess.

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