This isn't exactly true. Any Unix or Linux box I've installed or
administered myself, I've had access to the entire file system. It's
only been on systems where I've just been granted a user account where I
only have access to my own home folder. For example, on the laptop I'm
using right now, which is running Ubuntu, I have access to the systems
entire file system.
On 6/4/2014 2:01 AM, RobH. wrote:
To pick up a point about access to the whole file structure of the
iDevice,... Unix has never allowed that for security reasons, the most
you got is a Home directory/folder; so Apple could implement that for the
same reasons; so long as we had a Folder to organise our own personal stuff
in how we like. Mac must do this, windows has, or had, "Documents and
Settings" for user data trees; so it's pretty old hat now.
RobH.
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From: "Christopher J Chaltain" <chalt...@gmail.com>
To: <viphone@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2014 2:24 AM
Subject: Re: Accessibility Features in iOS8
I'm not sure iCloud Drive would satisfy those people who want to be able
to access their iPhone like a thumb drive. iCloud Drive would still only
work on an app by app basis. You couldn't copy your music over in the
folder structure you want, unless the Music app supported iCloud Drive
and then 5G won't go very far.
I too would like this feature myself, i.e. accessing the underlying
folder and file structure of the iPhone, but this isn't an oversight on
Apple's part. It's part of the design of the iPhone. I'd be surprised if
Apple were to change this any time soon, and for me at least, it just
became part of the decision making process. I'm getting an easier to
use, more accessible and more secure device at the cost of being able to
access the underlying file structure of the iPhone.
On 6/3/2014 7:16 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
Well, iOS devices are not thumb drives, and I doubt you will ever be
able to use one as such without a third-party app of some kind. That
said, if an app integrates the upcoming iCloud Drive option, you will
have basically what you are seeking, on an app-by-app basis. For
example, say you edit a PDF in a Mac app. you can drop it anywhere in
your iCloud Drive, then use some app on iOS to browse to and open that
file. If Voice Dream were to support iCloud Drive, imagine dumping
zipped Daisy books into the drive, then opening them in VDR. I hope
I'm making sense.
On Jun 3, 2014, at 8:13 PM, Tom Lange <lang...@gmail.com
<mailto:lang...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I would really like the ability to do file and folder management and
to be able to transfer files of all types from my PC or laptop to my
iPhone as if it were an external drive. I resent having to use
iTunes for any file/folder management task and would dearly love to
tell Apple to take iTunes and shove it way up where the sun don't shine.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 3, 2014, at 9:08 AM, "RobH." <bobs...@googlemail.com
<mailto:bobs...@googlemail.com>> wrote:
File management: I know there are apps that do it, so sure, why
Apple don't
provide something at system level has always bugged me. I have used
the
apps, but having such a fundamental feature built-in, would be a
monumental
and long-overdue benefit.
JMO, RobH.
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From: "Mike Arrigo" <n0...@charter.net <mailto:n0...@charter.net>>
To: <viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>>
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: Accessibility Features in iOS8
Certainly, the ability to have other keyboards system wide is a great
improvement. There wre 2 things I was hoping for that it appears we
will not be getting. First, the ability to install other voices and use
them system wide. Each person has their own voice preferences, but at
this point, any new voices that are installed can only be used with one
application. The other feature I wish we would have gotten is file
management. As far as I know, I O S is the only platform where copying
and moving files is very difficult.
Original message:
Hello,
I just watched the keynote and the one thing I was hoping for, does not
appear to be coming to iOS 8. Hopefully, I'm wrong but I fear not.
I would truly love to be able to organize the threads in the
Messages app;
you know, be able to create folders so I can save important
messages. All
I
saw in the keynote was the ability to name threads in group messages.
Again, I'm hoping I'm wrong and they will bring this feature to iOS
8 but
...
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
[mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Christopher Hallsworth
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 1:02 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: Accessibility Features in iOS8
No just the Fall. If it's like previous years mid September.
Christopher Hallsworth
Student at the Hadley School for the Blind www.hadley.edu
<http://www.hadley.edu>
On 03/06/2014 08:58, Haya Simkin & guide dog Pammy wrote:
Did anyone give a precise date for the release of ios8?
Haya Simkin & guide dog Pammy
Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 3, 2014, at 9:56, "RobH." <bobs...@googlemail.com
<mailto:bobs...@googlemail.com>> wrote:
It will be interesting to see just how many make the leap from iOs 6.*
straight up to 8.*.
Rh.
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From: "Alex Hall" <mehg...@icloud.com <mailto:mehg...@icloud.com>>
To: <viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>>
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 2:19 AM
Subject: Accessibility Features in iOS8
Hi all,
I just wanted to let everyone know the major new iOS8 accessibility
features we know so far. This is from the Keynote - I don't even have
the beta, so I can't break an NDA.
* Better Zoom
* Touch ID and a countdown timer as ways to exit Assistive Touch
* multi-device support for compatible hearing aids
* the Alex voice from OS X (possibly for Siri, or VO, we don't know
for
sure)
* six-key braille input on-screen (no clue what this will look like)
* third-party keyboard support for the whole system, and Fleksy as
said on Twitter that it will be among the first to take advantage of
this. Yes, Fleksy will soon be available at any point in iOS when a
keyboard appears, from Mail to the App store to, well, anywhere!
That's all I can think of for now, but between those and the standard
iOS8 features, this is shaping up to be a very, very exciting release!
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