Comment by stefanfisk
3 days ago
As a Mac user I might be missing something obvious - why do they need iPhone support on their computer?
3 days ago
As a Mac user I might be missing something obvious - why do they need iPhone support on their computer?
Backups. Copying photos. Sharing files. As a Mac User, you're probably well served with backups integration in Finder, as well as iCloud, AirDrop, iMessage, and friends without realising it.
Eh? I don't have an iPhone, but my mum does and she uses it fine without a Mac. Everything just syncs to iCloud, if there is some benefit to connecting it to a Mac then I'm genuinely unaware of it.
Do you mean like...iTunes? Huh?
I know approximately zero people who still tether an iPhone to a desktop for any sort of backups.
Even if it was still a thing (and it really isn’t, imo), libimobiledevice does a decent job already, and given a little funding it shouldn’t be super hard to close the gaps and build a nice UI on top of it. But that’s not happening because very few people care about it at all.
Now, AirDrop support is a completely different beast. But it requires hardware support (promiscuous mode, iirc) that many common chipsets simply lack.
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