{"id":2378,"date":"2010-01-28T09:44:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T13:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=2378"},"modified":"2010-01-28T09:44:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T13:44:43","slug":"apple-ipad-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/apple-ipad-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple iPad Update&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ArsTechnica had a small tidbit regarding iPhone 3.2 OS (iPad only).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; color: #333333;\">Thankfully, Apple has addressed this in the iPad-only iPhone OS 3.2. The documentation for the SDK<a style=\"color: #ff5b00; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"MacRumors: iPad SDK 3.2 Details: External Display, File Sharing System, No Multitasking\" href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2010\/01\/27\/ipad-sdk-3-2-details-external-display-file-sharing-system-no-multitasking\/\">indicates<\/a> that it uses a &#8220;shared folder&#8221; that any iPad application can read and write. This shared folder will also mount as a disk whenever an iPad is plugged in to a Mac or PC, allowing easy file transfer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.3077em; margin-left: 0px;\">This shared folder solves the problem of transferring files, and allowing one app to read data from other app&#8217;s files. Nonetheless, Apple could take this capability and extend it further. Apple could leverage iDisk to keep this shared folder in sync between a Mac and an iPad over-the-air, instead of relying solely on a wired, USB connection.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.3077em; margin-left: 0px;\">One complaint with the iPhone \/ iPod Touch, that I often hear is that there is no longer any way to easily use it as external storage for your computer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.3077em; margin-left: 0px;\">Well, this certainly does solve the problem, especially if this is backported to the iPhone \/ iPodTouch versions of the OS. \u00c2\u00a0Since the OS is the same, I would assume that this has already been done, just not released yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ArsTechnica had a small tidbit regarding iPhone 3.2 OS (iPad only). Thankfully, Apple has addressed this in the iPad-only iPhone OS 3.2. The documentation for the SDKindicates that it uses a &#8220;shared folder&#8221; that any iPad application can read and write. This shared folder will also mount as a disk whenever an iPad is plugged <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/apple-ipad-update\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[23],"tags":[1839],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->