![]() As noted on this DigiDNA Web page, "we were told by Apple to remove that functionality from FileAid based on the current SDK license agreement." ![]() It was this USB feature in FileAid, and only this feature, to which Apple objected. Anything that you placed in the DiskAid folder, you could view from FileAid on your iPhone. However, the application creates a special folder in the Media directory called, appropriately enough, DiskAid. The application is useful as is, even without FileAid. Unless you have jailbroken iPhone, DiskAid limits your access to the sandbox of the iPhone's mobile > Media directory. This application allows you to transfer files, via USB, from your Mac to your iPhone - and vice versa. To do this, you used DigiDNA's companion Mac utility: DiskAid. You could transfer files via a USB connection. All of the above-cited competing apps similarly use some form of wireless connection.Ģ. Using a Mac, you established an FTP connection via a utility such as Cyberduck. FileAid, in particular, could transfer files in either of two ways:ġ. To even begin to understand why, you first need to know a bit of the details as to how these apps work. Of all of these apps, only FileAid was required to make a change. Several other apps, such as DropBox and even Apple's own iDisk app, although they don't copy files to the iPhone, also fall into this general category of "document viewer." I've used FileAid as well as several of its competitors - including FileMagnet (still my personal favorite) and DataCase. Here's the background:įileAid is one of several iPhone apps that allow you to transfer document files from your Mac to your iPhone - and then view the files on your iPhone. Apple surprisingly objected to the feature and forced DigiDNA to remove it - even though the app (with the feature) had been approved and available in the App Store for months. The crux of the issue involves a file-viewing feature of an essentially harmless iPhone app: DigiDNA's FileAid. This time, the controversy seems more of a mystery than a mistake, mishap, miscalculation or a mis-whatever. Every time I think that there can't possibly another story that could again get me to mention Apple's decision making process any time soon, they pull me back in. So it is with me and Apple's App Store approval process. they pull me back in." (spoken by Michael Corleone in Godfather III)
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