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Re: iPhone USB access

From Andrew <andys@nospam.com>
Newsgroups comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone, alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject Re: iPhone USB access
Date 2024-12-21 20:24 +0000
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Theo wrote on 21 Dec 2024 12:52:51 +0000 (GMT) :

>> I'm an Android user thinking of getting an iPhone, and I see articles 
>> about apps that let ppl share files with their PCs, and I'm wondering 
>> why is there such an app? If I plug an iPhone into my PC's USB port, do 
>> I not get access to the iPhone's filesysten?
> 
> iPhones don't have a filesystem.
> 
> Well, of course they do, but they really don't want you to see it.
> 
> The way iOS works is it's very app-centric.  Apps own their own buckets of
> data which only they can see.  The way to move things between apps is the
> 'Share' function, rather than app B opening a file saved by app A.
> 
> Of course files do exist outside the iOS world, so places like Photos,
> Videos, Music and Downloads have some kind of specialness in that apps can
> ask to open files from there (not generically - a photo app can't see
> Music).  But apps can't open files from other random places, and especially
> not files in the buckets belonging to other apps.

Has anyone here ever *seen* the iOS DCIM file system organization?
          *If not, you're in for a big surprise!*

Files all over the place, in almost randomly named folders (such as
_201901) with randomly named image file names (such as IMG1234.JPG).
 <https://i.postimg.cc/PJ4hWyS0/Apple-Iphone.jpg>

No other operating system refuses to allow you to name your image files.
Just Apple.

Meanwhile, every other operating system (except Apple's) allows the user to
define how they want photo images to be named (using a sensible convention)
 <https://i.postimg.cc/zfgrt8dC/Samsung.jpg>

Some day Apple will care about the consumer. 
But that day hasn't arrived yet.

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iPhone USB access B00ze <B00ze64@hotmail.com> - 2024-12-20 21:50 -0500
  Re: iPhone USB access VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2024-12-20 21:35 -0600
    Re: iPhone USB access Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> - 2024-12-21 07:37 +0000
      Re: iPhone USB access VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2024-12-21 03:51 -0600
        Re: iPhone USB access Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> - 2024-12-21 11:18 +0000
          Re: iPhone USB access Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2024-12-21 12:27 +0100
            Re: iPhone USB access Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> - 2024-12-21 12:47 +0000
              Re: iPhone USB access "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-12-21 14:10 +0100
                Re: iPhone USB access Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-21 16:22 +0000
          Re: iPhone USB access VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2024-12-21 11:54 -0600
            Re: iPhone USB access Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-12-21 19:19 +0000
              Re: iPhone USB access VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2024-12-21 14:25 -0600
                Re: iPhone USB access Frankie <frankie@nospam.usa> - 2024-12-21 20:30 +0000
                Re: iPhone USB access Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-12-22 11:07 +0000
                Re: iPhone USB access VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2024-12-22 19:15 -0600
                Re: iPhone USB access Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-12-23 14:40 +0000
                Re: iPhone USB access Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-23 16:59 +0000
        Re: iPhone USB access Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2024-12-21 12:25 +0100
  Re: iPhone USB access Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2024-12-21 08:39 +0100
  Re: iPhone USB access Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2024-12-21 11:25 +0000
    Re: iPhone USB access Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2024-12-21 12:29 +0100
    Re: iPhone USB access Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-21 18:04 +0000
      Re: iPhone USB access Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2024-12-21 18:37 +0000
        Re: iPhone USB access Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2024-12-21 10:41 -0800
          Re: iPhone USB access Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2024-12-21 18:52 +0000
            Re: iPhone USB access Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-21 20:15 +0000
              Re: iPhone USB access Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2024-12-21 12:32 -0800
                Re: iPhone USB access Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2024-12-22 18:57 +0000
                Re: iPhone USB access Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-12-22 17:07 -0500
                Re: iPhone USB access Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-23 00:56 +0000
                Re: iPhone USB access Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2024-12-22 18:46 -0800
  Re: iPhone USB access Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2024-12-21 12:52 +0000
    Re: iPhone USB access "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-12-21 14:15 +0100
      Re: iPhone USB access Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2024-12-21 15:26 +0100
        Re: iPhone USB access Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2024-12-21 18:44 +0000
          Re: iPhone USB access Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2024-12-21 21:55 +0100
    Re: iPhone USB access Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-21 20:24 +0000
      Re: iPhone USB access Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2024-12-21 13:00 -0800
    Re: iPhone USB access Quincy the fifth <quincythefifth@telekom.net> - 2024-12-21 21:26 +0100
  Re: iPhone USB access Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-12-22 20:19 +0000
    Re: iPhone USB access Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-23 01:01 +0000
      Re: iPhone USB access Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2024-12-22 17:17 -0800
  Re: iPhone USB access B00ze <B00ze64@hotmail.com> - 2024-12-23 22:12 -0500

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