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Originally Posted by LarryNYC
I could probably write the iOS app to allow PDFs to be transferred back and forth with the RP1, but I'm sure Sony has plenty of smart programmers who could do the same thing. I hope they do it, it would be a killer feature.
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Originally Posted by LarryNYC
I hope the engineers at Sony read this forum, and think, yes, we could write a little iPhone app to transfer documents to the RP1.
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It's not a matter of just writing a 'little iPhone app' to drag-and-drop files. The current Digital Paper App that you need on a Windows/Mac laptop to get files on the DPT-RP1 is installed in a very particular way as a networking protocol with corresponding network security certificates from Sony (hence why people have trouble installing it).
The whole point of this is to lock the DPT-RP1 down (e.g. to satisfy lawyers with sensitive documents) - you can't even drag-and-drop files on it through the file explorer.
Hence you can't just write a 'little iPhone app' with these features - unless your iPhone is jailbroken or Android phone is rooted you can't even mess with the network protocols in such ways. Hence why Sony has not - and will not - release an app for mobile phones. It's simply not possible and goes against the whole philosophy of the DPT-RP1 (being an extremely locked down device in comparison to the DPT-S1).