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Originally Posted by murraypaul
No, that is a basic design restriction of iOS devices. Each app is completely sandboxed and cannot interact with other apps.
You can copy a file from one app to another, Apple provide an "Open In..." API that mediates between the two apps, but that creates a separate copy of the file in the filespace of the second app, you cannot share a file between two apps.
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I guess that's the reason...or part of the reason anyway...that I maintain that Apple's system is inherently more restrictive and more resistant to side-loading.
Though it is nice to know that there are more ways to make use of other content then I thought. I had thought that downloading videos from a local network like you say OPlayer does would have required a jailbreak.
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Originally Posted by anemicoak
You can download MP3's through the Amazon cloud player app. Is that what you mean?
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It's a grey are for me, but I think I still see that as an official download of content intended for the app, not side-loading of my own content.
Yes, I could upload my own MP3s to Amazon, and then download to the app, and if I wanted to use the main iPod music player for everything, if I understand murraypaul correctly, I could copy files individually into that player. So, yeah, better than a total lockout, I guess.