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Sources: iOS 18 Lets Apps Be Placed Anywhere on Home Screen Grid (www.macrumors.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/apple_enthusiast

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You do realize that you're telling me to use an "app" when it would be a lot easier if it just showed up as an external drive in the file explorer, right? Not to mention that media is just an example. What if I want to use it as a thumbdrive for random files? It's very stupid limitation and there's no way to justify it.

this is apparently a user group of “apple enthusiasts.”

enthusiast =/= blind

[–] Ghostalmedia 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Fair point. Just saying that you don’t need to be in the ecosystem to get the photos.

The fact that MS has that integration in the photos app, and the not file browser, is annoying. Apple handles Android phones the same exact way. It’s a mirror image of how MS integrates with iOS.

On MacOS you have to open the photos app to get Android photos, and on Windows you have to open the photos app to get iPhone photos. Default file browser integration exists, but only for the mobile platform they’ve invested in. MS has it out of the box for Android, Mac OS has it out of the box for iPhone.

If you want something else, you need to download some other file management apps or extensions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Apple handles Android phones the same exact way.

No, it doesn't. You need a 3rd party app (like Android File Transfer) to access general files and that's because Apple decided to make it harder for their users to use an android with a Mac. Why? Because they want to sell you an iPhone.

If you connect an Android device to a linux or windows pc, it simply shows up as an external device. No apps needed.

Default file browser integration exists, but only for the mobile platform they’ve invested in. MS has it out of the box for Android, Mac OS has it out of the box for iPhone.

Again, what? Windows did not invest in Android (they even tried to create their own mobile OS) and this has absolutely nothing to do with that. The only reason why you can't access your files from an iPhone or your Android files from a Mac is because Apple makes it deliberately inconvenient. There are no other reasons.

Android uses a standard communication protocol. There was no specific android "integration". It's like saying that a thumbdrive working on a given OS requires specific integration for each manufacturer.