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Apple has Stanza remove USB sharing from App
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Anyone think this is NOT a shot at further locking down competing reading apps headed for the iPad? |
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02-02-2010, 03:06 PM | #2 |
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Sure, except it could also be deprecated for the upcoming file sharing in SDK 3.2, which will hopefully get rid of all the wifi/bluetooth/go thru the DCIM folder USB methods that developers have had to use to put files onto the iPhone.
Just to be clear, as a long time Stanza user-the USB method was never the main method of getting content into Stanza-it was always through wi-fi. Using iPhone Explorer was a cool hack to access the file system without jailbreaking. |
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I won't take that bet. Apple started the fight with MacMillan, and now they are being Apple. The absence of the USB on the ipad is huge.
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Actually apple started asking app developers to do this last year. Not just reading apps but also apps in other categories. I remember seeing a few apps with bad reviews cause this function was taken away from the apps.
edit: I can't remember where i read this but i think one of the developers said that transferring over usb is not supposed to be supported but the developers found the loophole and had it in their apps. I think he said most if not all apps did not advertise it in the app store, so apple never really got around to checking. I still have 1 apps with this function. Last edited by readmorenow; 02-02-2010 at 03:17 PM. |
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Goodreader, a PDF reader, has had this feature disabled a while ago...
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Im a big user of stanza and have never eaven used this function and have lots of my own epubs in Stanza. |
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I guess that they are afraid, maybe, of providing an entry point for virii and such-like... |
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If this spreads to wifi then I'll be unhappy. Wasn't using USB myself.
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Actually, that's a good point. The new SDK references a shared folder on a PC or Mac that Apps will have access to. While that is more convenient for some apps (like iWork), the wi-fi scheme with Calibre right now is superior for me, at least for Stanza...I don't have to be near my computer to use it.
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http://twitter.com/jurewitz/status/8550289908
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But what if this is the first step in making the only "proper" transfer methods being via the various iStores? I think that's the concern.
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Update on the story from the iPhone Explorer Dev:
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