What screwed up world do you live in that someone else has to be wrong in order for you to be right? Because, in the real world, it doesn’t work that way. Someone else can find the iPad incredibly useful, while *at the same time* you can have legitimate gripes about missing features that cripple your workflow.

But you’re just an ass. Wait, I’m sorry, you’re a testicle. Same smell different location in your case I’d presume.

I had a huge hierarchical file system when I can to mac but quickly learned I didn’t need to depend on it as there are better ways to find / use files on mac.

My step father moved to mac (he’s 65 civil engineer) a year or so later. But when user him I cringe at the way he still does stuff. He was birthed in IT with the file system and I think it will only die with him. I’ve shown him faster easier ways but he continues on, set in his ways.

Wow- you accuse others of being fanboys, narrow minded and navel gazing but this I’d your argument?!

So your definition of *real work* is replying to emails with attachments?
See for others, at least some of us, we create documents on the iPad. When done we email it direct to clients, customers, patients right from the app which is easier than the old file system.

Obviously this ‘crippled file system’ ruins the device for everyone like you doing real work but there are others who benefit,

I use the file system on mac less and less each day. While beneficial there are ways to access it and use it again depending on what you need. I regularly need PDFs stored in the labyrinth so I use an app that I can edit the PDFs if needed, and yes all the files/folders are laid out exactly as on the mac. Dropbox and hundreds of other apps do something similar again BLN just because the device doesn’t fit your workflow doesn’t mean no one does real work on it.

Content consumption on my iPad is less than 40% Creation obviously makes up over 60%

As with any new device you look at whether it can help you…and the short of it is it can for millions.

If you need a file system it does exist for some apps. It all depends on what you do.

Just because it doesn’t work for you (whether because of your particular need or ignorance of what is available) doesn’t mean it can’t be used for real work. To think / state that…well *that* would be narrow minded.

Yes it is a devolution.

To download 500 apps out of 600,000 apps over a 2 year period is not a big deal, especially with many of them free.

That’s 0.6 apps per day.

So get your head out of your ass, please.

Your use case and mine are completely different. To me, the iPad is crippled because I cannot access documents on a hierarchical file structure so I can retrieve them and send them as email attachments. Ever tried answering an incoming mail and attaching a file to your reply? Thought not.

Documents are not app-centric. Documents should be project-centric. This is where a file system comes into play. Just because you use your iPad for viewing a couple of movies and playing one or two games doesn’t mean the rest of us waste our time like you do.

Stop spewing fanboy nonsense. You’re giving the rest of us Apple users a reputation for rabid foam at the mouth responses to anything remotely critical of Apple’s approach to simplifying the file system such that it becomes nonexistent. Try looking at the larger picture and stop gazing at your navel.

BTW, iBooks has a pseudo file system that I use all the time. The last trial I had I put EVERY document on my iPad. The courtroom had Wi-Fi so the only things I brought to the trial were my iPad and and AppleTV to use for Keynote presentations (the court provided a big TV to use). Very slick. I found that not having a bunch of papers and files laying around helped me focus more on testimony and made me able to do my job more efficiently. I submitted all of my exhibits on a throw away flash drive. Love the iPad!!!

So for me the iPad is pathetic at “content storage and retrieval” which amounts to being pathetic at content creation.

The use of the iPad for making money is not the definition of whether it is good at content creation. Bullsh*t back to yourself. It can well be used for making money, but the iPad is not good for handling content that has been already created, and subsequent editing – solely because of Apple’s idiotic notion that the OS and iOS should be designed for the base user who can’t cope with more than a single layer of a file structure. Why can’t we have Spotlight AND a good file structure. Why does Apple, once again, as always, force it’s agenda on us?

And what would your little demo prove? That an iPad can’t do what a desktop or laptop easily can do in certain situations? That’s already known…

Seems to me you’re erroneously interpreting simplification as “devolution” when for the majority of users that simplification is one of the attractive factors.

On stage, I will give him an iPad with about 500 apps and 40 folders and challenge him to delete 1 app (one). I will give him the name of the app, then time him to find the app and delete it.

That scene will be comical, because he will make a compete ass of himself having to go thru all 40 folders manually find the app to delete it.

This is where we are heading, not into computing evolution but DEVOLUTION. .

Definition of a computer :”an electronic device for storing and processing data, typically in binary form, according to instructions given to it in a variable program.”

Any device that accepts input by a user, calculate/transform that input using algorithms and print/display the output is by definition a computer.

That definition applies 100% to the iPad. And to the iPhone.

I think many don’t understand the subliminal appeal of operating an iPad with touch. It removes a layer of abstraction between the user and the machine and that is a much bigger factor than most acknowledge.

The more I cannot understand why the utility of these capable app are crippled by a nonsensicle crippled file system is disabled.

Tell me one good reason why there cannot be a central folder that can be accessed by all apps?

And don’t give me hat security BS.

It is due to a cometely wrong philosophy of trying to tie all documents to an app, rather than a folder like all modern file systems do.

Now Apple is trying to bring that same idiotic idea to the Mac, just waita and see.

This may make sense for Ma and Gradma that only casually uses their iPad for email, browsing and consuming media.

But for any human living on the planet on THIS planet in THIS decade it DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE.

I am telling you this a computing pro for 30 years and Apple user since the Apple II.

This wrong idea will set up iOS to fail against alternative emerging, such as Android and even Windcrap in the long run.

Oversimplifying things in an INCREASINGLY COMPLEX world of information management and needlessly limiting user options for customization to cater to the lowest denominator of user, the complete unskilled user, spoils it for everyone.

As for being a consuming device, well yes. I held a sit-down Sunday lunch for my big sister last month, when both Wimbledon and the British Grand Prix were running. Two iPads, sound off, TV on, circulated among lunch guests to keep ‘em up to speed!

I do plenty of real work on the iPad…and have never missed the file system you refer to.

Maybe people defend it because often it is faster, easier and less steps than on a laptop / desktop depending on what you are doing and the app you use – all in a smaller package with 10 hour battery!

You make no sense! Your comment is juvenile and stupid!

Many people, including myself, use the iPad just as much as a Mac/PC or even more – especially while on the move. It’s a very productive tool as long as you find the right apps to get certain things done. Ultimately, all that matters is what one can get done with a particular device.

I also use Dropbox app for the iPad (as well as the iPhone) extensively to access all the files on the computers (my MBA and the iMac at the office), so as long as I have Wi-Fi or cellular Interent connection, I’m fine. I use FileApp Pro on both the iPad and iPhone to keep certain files locally but that’s not a large number of files.

The iPad does not replace the MBA or the iMac but is a very nice complementary device that can become one’s primary device for a certain period of time depending on the environment and the situation. I’m on business trips to Asia and Europe over a third of my time and the iPad is definitely my main device when I’m on the road. It’s all I need on vacations as well along with the iPhone.

I have to admire the fiber of such people, to make such patently false statements, be proven utterly wrong by all accounts and still have the courage to take up a keyboard.

The iPad was destined to be a huge failure. Consumers would hate the damn thing and they sure weren’t going to pay $499+ for some crippled toy. The tech pundits all knew that Apple was making the biggest mistake ever and the company was surely doomed. They saw the future and there was no iPad in it. Microsoft failed to sell tablets to consumers and the iPad wasn’t didn’t even have half the function of a Windows tablet. Apple would never sell a million of those useless tablets in a year and maybe not ever. Steve Jobs would be the laughingstock of the entire computer industry. End of story.

I think people who defend to the death the iPad’s ability to do “real” work don’t consider the fact that just because you can make something work by using multiple steps rather than a few, or using all sorts of workarounds to accomplish something an Air or a MBP can do with ease doesn’t make it great.

There are many tasks that are the equivalent of flying from San Francisco to LA, then to Denver, to Chicago and then on to New York. Or you can take a nonstop from SF to NY. At the moment, too many tasks on the iPad can’t be made using a “nonstop” flight. I love my iPad, but I would be totally delusional if I considered it a replacement for any computer running OS X.

Your MMV
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