http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/ Engadget Comments for Apple launching free iDisk iPhone app for viewing and sending stored docs -- still no substitute for a file system http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/Jun 9th 2009 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/Jun 9th 2009 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/
All we are missing is Look_Around_You spurting off how much better "he can do anything better than apple can and how stupid apple owners are because we are not him" while his mom yells down the stairs for him to throw her clothes in the dryer while she cooks him breakfast

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But it is one of the major reasons I am a WinMo user. :-)]]>Jun 9th 2009 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/Jun 9th 2009 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/
A better example of trolling would be me pointing out (in an iPhone thread) that Apple are charging peanuts for Snow Leopard because they know it's nothing more than a service pack that doesn't include enough changes to justify charging full price.]]>Jun 9th 2009 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/
You have seen win7 right, ITS VISTA+ that’s it, but they are going to charge full price for it. IT IS FUCKING VISTA WITH A NEW TOOL BAR. Woo Hoo. And don't even start with the "But the upgrade price will only be $$" nobody worth 2 fucks would use the upgrade path when installing windows, unless you want to just totally screw up your whole system.

Wow the morons here are just getting out of control.]]>Jun 9th 2009 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/Jun 9th 2009 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/
I wouldn't spend my hard-earned money on a UNIX-subsystem phone with no filesystem access.

Makes perfect sense to me, and I pity the fool who'd call parent a troll.]]>Jun 9th 2009 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/Jun 9th 2009 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/
Why can't I be allowed to see all the files on the phone. Why don't I get a say in where an app is stored or installed?

Why do I have to let it do it for me?

Give me WinMo and Android flexibility with files!]]>Jun 9th 2009 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/Jun 9th 2009 10:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/Jun 9th 2009 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/
I have a WinMob phone, i can edit registry, i can see all the files i want, i can basicly do what ever i want to my PERSONAL phone. this possibility makes it really feel like it is a personal phone. Basicly there are no limits(Ball in for Android), but with this Apple OS(i don't think it even should be called an OS), you are nobody. You have to do what Apple tells you to do. Maybe that was the world domination plan Steve was talking about(MadTV sketches are the best sources of that info lol )?

Seriously, iPhone 3G S? S for shitty? I'm not a WinMob or Android fanboy, don't get me wrong, I have had several iPhones before(as replacements) and i really don't like it. At first it was really cool and innovative but the hype quickly dissappeared after all the flaws and missing components were brought to daylight(a sorry excuse of a camera, no video recording, mms = not an option etc). Yea, they added features now. but ummm, it should have been since day 1, not after 2 releases...]]>Jun 9th 2009 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/
That's what I ask every time I use an Apple product. That was one of the issues with Windows ME and it's been an issue with the early releases of every Windows product since. For some reason, OS developers think they're doing you a favor by having control taken out of your hands, and it takes them several updates to figure out that people really do want to tinker with their systems.]]>Jun 9th 2009 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/
Anytime you preface a statement with "I'm not a _________, but......" you are exactly that. General life rule #37. ]]>Jun 9th 2009 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/So that no-one would fuck around with the insides of the phone and OS? Looking at the way Apple integrates their software, that's like a 95% probability.]]>Jun 9th 2009 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/
The windows registry is the worst software disaster in the history of mankind, trust me i have to deal with the piece of shit every day on many many many computers.]]>Jun 9th 2009 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/Jun 9th 2009 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/
That is the stupidest complaint I have ever heard, ever. About anything.]]>Jun 9th 2009 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/
Does that mean whenever you install something on your computer you just let it go to town putting files where you want? That's stupid!

On WinMo (I think Android and Symbian to, users will have to corroborate), I could install some programs to SD cards. Talk about flexibility. Programs that i use sparingly I can keep out of the main memory.

Also, being able to browse the phone's files through your computer is even nicer. I rather have the ability versus just assuming the OS just does it well.


Dillinger,

The base registry settings in WinMo are designed to work will all handsets that use it. Carriers make some modifications also. The end user can make device specific tweaks to THEIR preference. It truly becomes their phone. A true techie would utilize WinMO, Android, and/or Symbian. The WebOS system when fully matured may go just as far. And I hope it does.

All the fancy iPhone animation and look can be replicated if the user likes that on a WinMo. They still get the flexibility that the iPhone OS doesn't give them though!
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I personally have an iPod Touch and I use an application called "MobileFinder". I use it to maintain a mobile archive of a bunch of technical documents and charts in PDF form, although the program supports just about every document, text, image, or video format.]]>Jun 9th 2009 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/
As for imitating the iPhone, it is not at all possible with Windows Mobile. I'm sorry, I and many others have tried, and all you end up with is an inconsistent interface. Considering the fact that no WinMo 6.1 devices have capacitive touchscreens the smooth and responsive feel can not be replicated. Windows Mobile is just seriously outdated now, maybe 7 will bring it some hope.]]>Jun 9th 2009 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/Jun 9th 2009 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/
Tell me where you can get the eqivalent of that in one package? Think before you speak. ]]>Jun 9th 2009 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/Jun 9th 2009 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/
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Apple blew it with the iPhone yesterday. A compass. Just a compass. All the good rumors going around and they gave a compass. This "high techonology" phone didn't even get an oled screen, which would have increased battery life. A compass.

They could at least give all prior phones the video recording and voice commands, it's not like they couldn't handle it. My phone from 10 years ago could do it, so don't tell me it has anything to do with hardware because it doesn't. It was the only way they could make the 3Gs look more like a new phone, which it's not.]]>Jun 9th 2009 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/
TJ]]>Jun 9th 2009 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/
I'm sure a good fart app could accommodate a compass. I just don't know how, yet.]]>Jun 9th 2009 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/
And if you actually thought about the outlandish rumors, none of them really made sense.
1) OLED - no OLED manufacturer would be able to keep up the pace on producing OLED screens for the iPhone. This rumor wasn't even slightly believable. It'll only happen when you hear rumors weeks to months in advance on Apple buying a bunch of 3.5" OLED screens from Samsung or Sony (we heard none).

2) Video chat - AT&Ts network can barely handle streaming video as is, and you want me to believe that they have the bandwidth for video chat? The hardware put into the iPhone is always based on what can be done in the US (no bitching about it being available in Europe please). And, please, think of the battery life for that feature. 5 hrs for 3G talk time alone would drop to maybe 2-3 hours of video chat time. People would be complaining about horrible battery life! It's a pipe dream

3) Forward facing camera - due to the iPhone's slim profile, I doubt there's any space for that. You've already got the accelerometer, 2 proximity sensors and a speaker at the top. I don't see where you can cram more stuff into such a tiny space.

4) FM receiver - Apple is not going to compete against it's core business by sticking in an FM receiver. Plus, there are already enough radios in this thing.]]>Jun 9th 2009 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/2009-Add Compass to Iphone
2010-Add Sundial and starmap to Iphone
2011-Release the IBoat]]>Jun 9th 2009 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/Maybe not in the US of A, but look everywhere else in the world...]]>Jun 9th 2009 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad my 3G will still look just as good for at least another year. All I'm saying is they need to get their head out of their ass if they think the 3Gs is a big deal, because I'm pretty sure Christopher Columbus had a compass...

The 3Gs is basically a joke.]]>Jun 9th 2009 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/
how many phones do you know that sell as good as the iPhone on a single carrier?
there is only 1 other cell phone on the market that has 32GB internal storage!

Look at yourselves... all you can complain about is that it doesn not have an OLED screen and has no built in FM Radio? WOW! I can complain all day long about how horrible winmo is, how S60 still doesn't have threaded messages, how unintuitive the BB interface is, the small memory of the Pre... but I know that the iPhone is the best mobile device on the market!]]>Jun 9th 2009 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/
Winmo is not horrible on the newer devices. It was being stifled by 64 MB of ram, like on the HTC Mogul. With newer devices from HTC like the Pro 2 and the HD, Which have 256 MB of ram, there is no problem with freezing or jitters.

My phone (Mogul, upgrading soon to Pro 2 when it comes out for Sprint) has turn by turn directions, and has an arrow in Google Maps telling which direction I'm facing.

"how many phones do you know that sell as good as the iPhone on a single carrier?"

That's the problem now isn't it. In America, the iPhone is selling like hotcakes. But that is because the general American attitude is "how easy to use is this product?" or rather, "how much do I have to know to use this device?". In places like Japan and Korea, people are willing to learn and read the user manual on their device. They care whether or not the product has features and works, not the intuitiveness. Apple is having trouble GIVING AWAY the iPhone there. But that's a different culture.

The Pre has 8GB of memory. I seem to recall another (i)phone that started out with only that much.

Plus, I have complete control over my phone with Winmo. Do you?]]>Jun 9th 2009 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/
You mean when its not crashing or randomly resets? I have a handful of friends that own the touch pro/Fuze its garbage!!! if your going to say how great winmo is your completely ignoring the fact of resistive touch screens are garbage! if winmo was so great why do companies have to make "skins" to put ONTOP of winmo in order to get people to want to buy it!! the iPhone is a fun device to use everything else is more of a chore than anything, so please stop being a complete tool.
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From your response, I have inferred that you have only read the first line of my comment and then ignored the rest. Then you gave your knee-jerk response.]]>Jun 9th 2009 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/
Do you seriously think that you or anyone else would use a compass more often than a radio? I don't generally listen to the radio but even I would use it more than a compass.
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auto map rotation using compass - Nokia N97.]]>Jun 9th 2009 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/
Anyway, I would definitely use an FM radio more than a compass, and I'm pretty confident in my ability to discern the direction I'm facing, since the Sun travels east to west, and I can stand at an intersection and figure out which ways each street runs.]]>Jun 9th 2009 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/Jun 9th 2009 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/Jun 9th 2009 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/Jun 9th 2009 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/
I'm feeling constrained. This is just pushing MobileMe (my initial reaction). There's no excuse for this - there is, it's business, but it doesn't mean I have to like it. It's a real shame that there's a lack of Bluetooth access to files or even file system access via USB. Standard features on phones that have been around years before Apple started working on an iPhone. ]]>Jun 9th 2009 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/
Thus the iPhone cannot be used as a USB flash drive to store/transport data files as well as to sideload media content directly, from any computer, without extra software (capability that exists in the Palm Pre, too bad it only has 8GB). And as someone else mentioned, you can't even do general file sync'ing even IF you do have iTunes installed.]]>Jun 9th 2009 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/Jun 9th 2009 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/apple-launching-free-idisk-app-for-viewing-and-sending-stored-do/
steve@mac.com

sjobs@apple.com
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Quit sniveling and either pay the price or learn to comprehend the words in the contracts you sign.]]>Jun 9th 2009 10:56AM