So I've been thinking alot about iPad and fundamental lack of file management. For those of us who are complaining about file management, notice that we only complain about documents. The only reason to do this is that there is not better desktop support for document management.
If you think about it, Apple has been moving towards database style management of documents. iTunes allows us to see and organize our music without ever seeing it, iPhoto allows us to do the same with our photos.
What we need now is for that database style manipulation to be present in iWork. If you look at any of the iWork applications on iPad, thats how they all manage files, by showing them to you essentially in a database. What Apple needs to do is implement this database style of document management into iWork and then allow us to simply sync our iWork files through iTunes.
I'm fairly sure I 'get' the iPad...I just think we're missing an application on our real computers to manage it better.
Read this article on Evansharp to understand me better.
Do that Apple, and you'll rule the world with iPad.
If you think about it, Apple has been moving towards database style management of documents. iTunes allows us to see and organize our music without ever seeing it, iPhoto allows us to do the same with our photos.
What we need now is for that database style manipulation to be present in iWork. If you look at any of the iWork applications on iPad, thats how they all manage files, by showing them to you essentially in a database. What Apple needs to do is implement this database style of document management into iWork and then allow us to simply sync our iWork files through iTunes.
I'm fairly sure I 'get' the iPad...I just think we're missing an application on our real computers to manage it better.
Read this article on Evansharp to understand me better.
Do that Apple, and you'll rule the world with iPad.