normal people need file storage and iOS doesn't give any

From	RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	normal people need file storage and iOS doesn't give any
Date	2016-07-30 16:14 +0000
Organization	solani.org
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From the «help I need to monetize even the mundane» department:
Title: iPad-only is the new desktop Linux
Author: Thom Holwerda
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2016 08:37:19 -0400
Link: http://osnews.com/story/29326/iPad-only_is_the_new_desktop_Linux

If you're going to tell me "normal people" don't do those tasks, please don't.
Quilters run blogs. Salespeople create presentations. And non-techie writers
send revisions to editors. It's us nerds who insist that iOS solves the
"problem" of normal people who don't understand the file system putting all
their files on the desktop. But the desktop acts as shared document storage,
which is something it turns out normal people sometimes need, and iOS does not
solve that problem. Lecture me about the virtues of containers all you want,
but there is no world in which having to use Dropbox as a temporary storage
medium is a step forward. This is a great article, and it hits the nail on the
head so hard, the nail's probably in Fiji by now. The only people going
iPad-only are bloggers writing "I went iPad-only"-posts, and people who are
trying to prove a point. Neither of them constitute a market.


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normal people need file storage and iOS doesn't give any RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-07-30 16:14 +0000
  Re: normal people need file storage and iOS doesn't give any Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-07-30 17:10 +0000
    MS (Was: normal people need file storage and iOS doesn't give any) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2016-07-30 17:38 +0000
    Re: normal people need file storage and iOS doesn't give any RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-07-30 14:15 -0400
      Re: normal people need file storage and iOS doesn't give any "Andy K." <andy.k466@gmail.com> - 2016-07-30 21:58 +0200
  Re: normal people need file storage and iOS doesn't give any Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-07-31 10:16 +0000

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