Thread: Jolla Tablet
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2015-01-30 , 12:36
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Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
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.
In this case Jolla is not doing sdxc card support the SD Card Association way which is the way even the little guys do it.


Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
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?
Tablets generally only have one usb port so he was using the tablet as an interim storage space. He could have solved it with a hub probably. But in any case Sailfish doesn't support usb otg iirc.

Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
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?
Because tablets generally do not support host mode mtp. They generally appear as slave devices.


Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
??? 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?
They support ptp in iPhoto because that is what cameras support.They haven't bothered to support mtp yet.

Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
(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?)
Apple does need to do something about MTP. Google's Android File Transfer app used to work but broke about two OS versions ago.


Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
Well, but that's the thing -- Jolla's developers aren't following mouthy Linux fundamentalists. They ARE mouthy Linux fundamentalists.
That obviously isn't the case as the phone is full of proprietary tech often at the expense of support for open standards. See my previous list of the open standards Apple use that Jolla are dismal at using.
 

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