[OT] More Apple Foolishness

[Chipp Walters]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:25 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:

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> I have read more Apple documentation in the last 2 months than I have in
> the last ten years. Maybe I'm just too entrenched in old habits, maybe it's
> intuitive to new users.


Yep, agreed. You should see the gymnastics I have to go through just to send
a Keynote presentation from my iPad to another person. You can't typically
send it via email because it's too large and iMail just barfs, so then you
need to deposit it in a public folder in your DropBox account, but of course
Apple doesn't support third party 'file managers' (even though for some damn
reason they've decided NOT to have one of their own-- OOPS, I guess some
actually think MobileMe was the answer!)

In order to get it to DropBox you need to set up the pricey WebDav product:
DropDav, then send it there, then get the URL from your DropBox account and
finally send THAT to the person you're trying to share the Keynote
presentation with.

Oh, the other way is to 'tether' your 'Post PC iPad' to an 'old generation'
PC, wait the 45 minutes or so that it forces a sync on you, then grab it
from iTunes (the single most frustrating and annoying app interface-wise on
the whole planet on any OS), and then email it from your PC.