I love your always-conspiracy-theory view of Apple products, Larry. You just don't get Apple, like I don't get your humor. eh?
G On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Feb 16, 2013, at 11:07 PM, steve harley wrote: > >> on 2013-02-14 16:47 Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote >>> This is because iOS does not support external file systems, which >>> cannot be sandboxed. A sandboxed file system promotes security and >>> minimizes virus attacks, particularly important in mobile devices. >> >> iOS does support external file systems, just in specific limited ways; one >> can copy certain types of files from an SD card _to_ an iOS device (which is >> the direction with security implications), but not _from_ the iOS device >> back to an SD card (or other storage) >> >> i can't fathom any security explanation for this restriction > > The security of the cash flow to the iTunes store. > > If you could copy songs off of your iOS device, you could share them with > friends more easily, and they wouldn't have to give money to Apple to buy the > songs themselves. > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
