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

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On 28 Oct 2026, Paul wrote in <11buib0$31njj$1@dont-email.me>:
> On Wed, 10/28/2026 4:54 PM, Brock McNuggets wrote:
>> On 28 Oct 2026, Maria Sophia wrote in
>> <11btmeb$1rod$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com>:
>>> Chris wrote:
>>>>>> If you don't want the draft to connect to the Internet, you are
>>>>>> free to connect to your e-mail using POP3 which downloads
>>>>>> everything and erases it from the server.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Which is contrary to the point.
>>>> 
>>>> The point was to, yet again, manufacture a supposed weakness in
>>>> iOS/iPadOS.
>>> 
>>> Actually, iOS was never designed to be interoperable with anything
>>> that was not made by Apple, as far as anyone who is reasonable would
>>> claim, AFAIK.
>>> 
>>> Are you seriously claiming Apple's iOS is as interoperable with
>>> Windows as, oh, say Android, Chris?
>>> 
>>> If so, your claim is ridiculously absurd on all accounts, and if I'm
>>> wrong, let's see someone on the normal OS newsgroups claim that
>>> you're correct.
>> 
>> Everything goes though the 'net these days... but, sure, Apple stuff
>> works better with Apple stuff, just as Google stuff works better with
>> Google stuff. And?
> 
> You will admit, certain OS combinations work better together.
> 
> And in this computer room, what works, is what gets used.
> 
> It's a pretty simple formula really, to success,
> for the participants.
> 
> You don't need to be "perfectly open", just "sufficiently open".
> 
> The idea is, to make your box "frictionless", so a person like maria
> cannot continuously make soap operas out of it.
> 
> I once made a sector level backup of the disk on the Mac G4. It took a
> PowerPC DVD version of Ubuntu, "dd" and "ftp". That is used to capture
> a disk at rest.
> (Ethernet is the fastest I/O on that box.)
> Well, today, if I double click the output from that
> session in Linux, all the Mac partitions open sequentially within the
> bitmap image of the disk. I can see all my files! (Probably only data
> forks, as you can imagine. For
> important documents left on the disk image, that's
> likely to be a good start.) And that's because File Sharing would not
> work on MacOS 10.2 . A dialog would open to take a username and
> password, but the connection would drop before you could enter
> credentials. Nobody ever fixed that.
> Yes, all versions of SMB were turned on, on the other boxes.

I have seen SMB oddities on macOS in the past.
> 
> How attractive is this for a closed ecosystem attempt ? Pretty
> unmagical at a guess. Why launch a product when it isn't ready ?
> Haven't we learned anything ? Or was the project close to getting
> canceled, instead of launched ???
> 
> https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-googlebook-os-review-app-gemini-problems/
> 
> Paul
> 



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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 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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