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Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC

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Paul wrote:
> The idea is, to make your box "frictionless", so a person
> like maria cannot continuously make soap operas out of it.

Heh heh heh... I love that! I might use it as a signature line.
Do I need to pay royalties to you for that privilege?

If iOS actually worked, I'd have nothing to say about it.

Worse, if the Apple nutcases would just act like normal people, every
thread that includes them would be an order of magnitude shorter as a
result.

To copy text between iOS and Windows clipboards is a clusterfuck.
Unless you use Vysor.

It's a *lot* easier to copy between Android & Windows clipboards though.
That's because Android has this concept of a file outside of an app.

iOS doesn't.

Android handles files as independent system entities that live in actual
directories. We can grab a file or a chunk of data, and the OS treats it
like an object that can be moved, read, or intercepted by another OS
without locking it inside an app sandbox.

Apple's iOS, by contrast, treats files and clipboards as app-centric
property. Because Apple isolates data inside rigid application containers
by design, getting something as simple as text or a loose file from an
iPhone to a Windows PC without an all-Apple ecosystem forces you to jump
through third-party workarounds (like Vysor, cloud clipping tools, or
messaging yourself).

When people praise iOS "simplicity," they are usually ignoring how
punishingly difficult it makes cross-platform friction.

There's brilliant logic in Apple purposefully making iOS NOT interoperate
with the platforms in the real world, in that Apple makes a LOT of money
out of forcing their constituents to buy an Apple-only ecosystem.

Otherwise, if they try to use their devices in the real world, they fail.
It's a brilliant marketing strategy.

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Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-25 22:45 -0400
  Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-27 13:17 +0100
    Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2026-10-27 10:15 -0400
      Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-27 20:18 +0100
        Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2026-10-27 17:02 -0400
          Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-27 23:09 +0100
            Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-27 23:53 -0400
              Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-28 18:27 +0100
                Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-28 16:31 -0400
        Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2026-10-28 08:18 +0000
          Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-28 16:37 -0400
            Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2026-10-28 13:54 -0700
              Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-10-29 00:33 -0400
                Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2026-10-28 22:24 -0700
                Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-30 00:27 -0400
                Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2026-10-30 06:46 -0700
    Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-10-27 10:41 -0400
      Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-27 20:21 +0100

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