Of course I will upgrade alone because of the new volume ui. But all the plans they had for ios 12 plus another year of engineering should lead to something bigger. But we all really know nothing so maybe we will surprised. Couple of weeks till dark mode guys
I hope it does but I think we’re nearing the point where something really big like the past days are over
I'm not sure you're reading the quoted text correctly. How I read it is that you'll be able to directly get photos into 3rd party apps without needing to do the 3 step process of taking the photo, saving it to the Photos app and then inserting it into the 3rd party app. So, similar to how you can directly take/insert photos into iMessages.
I don’t understand. You just basically repeated what I said, in a different way.
The part he has issue with is that you took that to mean no full file system support for external storage when the story doesn't actually have any bearing on that.
The part about no full file system support was my speculation (hence my use of the term “likely”), considering that we have had no solid rumours about that, and now we have rumours of just the expansion of the preexisting limited support to apps other than Photos.
Well, we don't know what we don't know. I'm not going to rule it out, but I'm inclined to believe that as well. Honestly I'm fine with it as long as I can do stuff with my files, whether it be an import into Lightroom or plugging in a USB drive to email someone something. If I can go to attach a document in Mail and it lets me browse the USB drive, then I consider that a win. But I also have to wonder how they would do this differently. Currently if you go to insert an attachment, it lets you pick from various "locations" such as iCloud, on my [device], Dropbox, or whatever else you've added. Would make more functional sense for it to just show up as another location, and if that's the case, then why not also show it in the Files app for consistency? But if they just make it a thing in the image picker, like a tab at the top for external drive, then that would be unfortunate—especially if you can only do images/video and not music files, documents, PSDs, etc. In a perfect world we would all have fast cloud connections everywhere and clients would use that. But in the real world clients still give us crap on a flash drive, bosses give you presentations on a flash drive that you then have to email to yourself because the machine you're presenting on at a conference has a web browser but no accessible USB ports for security reasons, etc. Crap happens and full access would be great. But even this limited access would be huge.
From the text of that rumour, you still wouldn't be able to attach a spreadsheet or PDF or whatever.
@macduke characterized my thoughts exactly. You can't infer the lack of a feature from the (possible) inclusion of another, only tangentially related feature. A useful file system may still not be in the offing, but the photo insertion API doesn't tell us that one way or the other.
It's a logical conclusion. We won't know for sure until the betas are out, but there really wouldn't be much point in limiting the API to only photo/video imports if the OS could access other files like most of us want.
I still think you're reading too much into a rumored feature that addresses an issue different than the one that concerns you. I really do think we'll see some sort of massively improved file management system. Maybe not to the level of Finder, but maybe close. Apple knows they need this to keep the iPad competitive.
Your experience is just that, your experience. I have no "sluggishness" in the music app or any other app. Doesn't mean you don't, just means I don't.
„Really big“ means:
