iPhone SDK: The Big Ouch!
iPhone SDK: 5 Reasons to Love, 5 Reasons to Hate
2. Currently No Disk Access
Even if a program like VLC is greenlit, how would you get non-iTunes media files onto the iPhone? Similarly, applications like Office Suites, e-book or comic book readers, etc., may be non-starters because of this limitation.
No no no. I don’t like that bit at all.
Although … this could be foresight in terms of Apple segmenting the market.
Certainly a tablet — iPod Air — would have to permit disk access.
iPod Touch as entertainment device.
iPhone as communications device.
iPod Air as productivity device.
