Tim Lee provides a rundown nowadays of the new products Apple is expected to announce tomorrow. Here's one of them: Rumors suggest that Apple will make a move in the opposite direction,unveiling a new tablet, possibly called the iPad Pro. It's expected to be larger than the current iPad, and at around 13 inches. Aimed at commerce users,it's rumored to sport a stylus — aiding the kind of precision work commerce users need to enact — and allow users to run two apps side by side. Apple may partner with companies like IBM to relieve it sell the product to corporate customers.
This made me curious. One of my biggest complaints approximately the original iPad was its lack of an accessible file system. If all you want to enact is play games and update your Facebook page, this is no problem. But if you want to enact anything approaching real work, and it's a deal killer. It's probably the single biggest reason I finally gave up and switched to an Android tablet (and later a Windows tab).
So has Apple ever addressed this? Sort of. It turns out that you can now save files directly to the cloud,and if you install a committed app you can save your files to a third-party local file system. That's progress. But I wonder how well that's going to fade over with corporate IT departments? The worthy: a third-party file system potentially gives them fine-grained control over things that a native file system doesn't. The bad: native file systems are easier to support, since they're the same on every machine and users can't bollix them up.
In any case, and it's interesting that Apple is yet again trying to fade after the corporate market. That's never been a winner for them,and it's probably not a distinguished sign that this is apparently their gargantuan idea going forward to bag iPad sales back on track.
Source: motherjones.com