Wednesday, April 7, 2010

File management on the iPad

Setting up my wife's iPad with Pages & Keynote was interesting.
The file management is definitely strange. At first I thought I was just missing something obvious. Then I came across this article and found out I wasn't the only one.

Very poor execution IMHO, but I realize they had to push it out the door by a certain date (hence the pulling of the file sharing described in the article) or face the backlash of the fanboys (yes, I'm including myself as well -- can we please get a MBP refresh already?!).

I'll go on record now saying that they'll keep it cumbersome (current method) and add nice MobileMe support (in the same way that they are hooking it into iwork.com beta -- not that THAT implementation is very good either -- fine for commenting on documents and making copy after copy in multiple places). A far cry from something as elegant as say dropbox. Which is why I think they'll hook it into MobileMe iDisk (and, of course, not let any other webdav drives play nice).

Anybody else play with "file sharing" on the iPad?

Steve

P.S. - Anybody have the addiction support line for Plants vs Zombies? I might need an intervention for my wife ;)

P.P.S. - And while I'm at it, still can't send email from non-me.com/mac.com domain using MobileMe email. What is this still the 80's? I get it. We all have to smoke the Apple crack. Perhaps they are waiting for people to stop using faxes and AOL email addresses as a sign... Get with it Apple!