Re: [PLUG] iDevices

[David Coulson <david@davidcoulson.net>]

You realize iTunes is probably the simplest way to manage content on an 
iOS device? Even if you never buy anything from Apple (as far as content 
goes), it's easy to manage your stuff and sync it to the device(s) over 
wifi.

I hate DRM as much as the next person, but frankly iTunes does a decent 
job, and I don't have time to manage some other way to do it - Plus who 
knows if the next iOS update will break it.

There is more options if you jailbreak it, but since it's a work device 
you probably can't do that.

On 12/27/12 12:16 PM, jeff wrote:
> The world *is* actually going to end shortly, as evidenced by work 
> getting me an iPad.
>
> I am not the least bit interested in iTunes.  I don't want to dig up 
> Steve Jobs and ask permission each time I want to put a media file on 
> my device.  No syncing needed - just xfer files and play/view/display 
> them.
>
> Plugging into Win7 allows me access to DCIM but I can't actually put 
> anything there.  Plugging into Xubuntu 12.04 finds a USB device but 
> that's it.  Xubuntu 12.10 fully identifies the iPad and that's it.  I 
> have Googled, installed libimobile, fuse, gtkpod and whatever else, to 
> no avail.
>
> Apparently one cannot simply use a File Manager to manage files. Every 
> manager I found wants you to use ITS file system.
>
> I know these things are pretty popular.  How does PLUG use them?
>
>
> Thanks.

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