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Originally Posted by Jack Tingle
OK, stand over there and I'll Bluetooth this Excel spreadsheet to your iPhone from my Samsung. Just open it up and ... What? FTP, why? Oh, OK, here, just load my microSD ... What? Oh, OK. ... I'll get back to you, someday.
Regards,
Jack Tingle
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But do that many people really need to do that kind of stuff?
I realize their products aren't probably suited for the tech heads and power users that do that kind of stuff, want to hack and customize the heck out of their devices etc.
But that's not the average user. The average user is more someone like me that buys a device and expects it to do what I need out of the box, and will seldom spend any time customizing anything, wanting to use different file formats etc.
I feel the same about the Kindle hate. Most people are like me and could care less that it doesn't support e-pub, has DRM etc. as we just get books from the Amazon store (and maybe free books from places like Feedbooks) and can find everything we want to read and don't need it to do anything else.
Point being, yes such devices are closed in a sense. But the tech heads go to far in bashing them because they don't fit their needs when they are a tiny fraction of the user base for such devices.
Apple would probably prefer the tech head/hacker crowd stay away from their products. They make them closed and easy to use for the joe six packs who just want simple products that are intuitive to use and just work.
And I'm no apple fanboy. Have never owned an Apple product of any kind. I just think the techies go to far in their hatred of Apple's products. They're simply not for them, they should go use the devices that suit them and shut up about Apple IMO. As it really boils down to them bashing a company to not catering to their specific needs and choosing to get rich focusing on the mainstream market--which is silly.