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2015-01-30 , 11:56
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Originally Posted by aegis View Post
I'm absolutely fine with Jolla doing their own thing BUT there are consequences with their limited interoperability with the outside world.
And that's what I'm saying. If the "consequences" of not doing things the Apple/Microsoft way are that great, then only Apple/Microsoft can innovate. No point in designing your own hardware; the big guys have already won before you even start.

The exfat situation means I can't do this...

http://petapixel.com/2013/03/26/how-...l-hard-drives/
Wow! That seems awfully complex. Why not just plug the external HDD directly into the tablet? USB-OTG was designed for just that sort of task, wasn't it?

EDIT: My mistake, this article was about backing up camera photos to the tablet and then to the HDD. So, my next question: why not just plug the camera directly into the tablet?

The use of Microsoft's crappy mtp protocol means I have to use sftp on non-Windows or non-linux systems.
??? MTP is the standard, right? It's created by Microsoft. The fact that Apple doesn't support it just means that Apple is trying to do the same thing Jolla is, right?

(My head is starting to spin here -- is Microsoft bad for creating the MTP standard, or is Apple bad for not following the MTP standard, or is Jolla now bad for actually following the MTP standard?)

Most of these limitations I'd put down to simply lack of development resource and that they would get done eventually. But that's obviously not the case if they're going to ditch consumer oriented features because mouthy Linux fundamentalists don't want to pay Microsoft for another licence on a device that uses dozens of proprietary licensed tech already.
Well, but that's the thing -- Jolla's developers aren't following mouthy Linux fundamentalists. They ARE mouthy Linux fundamentalists.
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