Legitimate app to use iPhone memory as a Windows folder?

Is there a legitimate Apple approved application that allows the iPhone to
be used as an ordinary Windows PC folder? I would like to be able to drag
and drop (or at least somehow easily transfer) files to the iPhone from my
PC.

Thanks.

In article <0031169a$0$9956$(E-Mail Removed)>, John Doe
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Is there a legitimate Apple approved application that allows the iPhone to
> be used as an ordinary Windows PC folder? I would like to be able to drag
> and drop (or at least somehow easily transfer) files to the iPhone from my
> PC.

quite a few, including air sharing, filemagnet, files, file sharing,
folders, wi-fi file sharing and harddrive. they turn the phone into a
wireless network drive to which you can copy files and even view them
on the phone.

nospam <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>> ... transfer) files to the iPhone from my PC.

> quite a few, including air sharing, filemagnet, files, file sharing,
> folders, wi-fi file sharing and harddrive. they turn the phone into a
> wireless network drive to which you can copy files and even view them
> on the phone.

Do they all require wireless transfer? Do any approved applications
facilitate going directly to/from the PC through the USB cable?

Wi-Fi? Can my home wireless router be used to transfer them to/from the PC?

Thanks.

In article <0008ed36$0$16741$(E-Mail Removed)>, John Doe
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Do they all require wireless transfer? Do any approved applications
> facilitate going directly to/from the PC through the USB cable?

they all use wifi.

> Wi-Fi? Can my home wireless router be used to transfer them to/from the PC?

sure. as long as the iphone is on the same subnet as the computer, it
will work.

nospam <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>> Do they all require wireless transfer? Do any approved applications
>> facilitate going directly to/from the PC through the USB cable?
>
> they all use wifi.
>
>> Wi-Fi? Can my home wireless router be used to transfer them to/from
>> the PC?
>
> sure. as long as the iphone is on the same subnet as the computer, it
> will work.

Please recommend some, simple as possible. Mainly, I just want to store
files on the iPhone like a USB flash drive.

Nevermind, I found at least one that looks okay.
"Files"
The first one I noticed "WiFi HD FREE" is ridiculous.

On Jul 4, 7:27*pm, John Doe <j...@usenetlove.invalid> wrote:
> Nevermind, I found at least one that looks okay.
> "Files"
> The first one I noticed "WiFi HD FREE" is ridiculous.

Files is pretty good. Of course nothing is as good as the old system
of making it just look like a USB disk, but "Apple knows best...".

One piece of advice. Be sure to configure your router to
always assign the same ip address to your iPhone. That
way, you can create a desktop shortcut without having
to reconfigure it every time.

-jc

jc :
> Files is pretty good. Of course nothing is as good as the old system
> of making it just look like a USB disk, but "Apple knows best...".

Uh, I would say it's the Windows world that is guiding this. You see,
before Apple realized that their mobile products _had_ to be
Windows-compatible in order to sell big, we had FireWire--superior in
speed to USB, including USB 2 (FW 800). But, as the old-time Morse-code
radio operators used to say, you have to send for the slowest guy on
the net, and since Windows-only machines have spotty FW support, Apple
switched its mobile devices to USB. Macheads understood, but were
disappointed to be dragged down once more by Windows.

> One piece of advice. Be sure to configure your router to
> always assign the same ip address to your iPhone. That
> way, you can create a desktop shortcut without having
> to reconfigure it every time.

On the Mac a network device shows up regardless of the IP address. It's
a Unix thing, the ability to display all computers on the same subnet
without the user having to configure anything.

Davoud

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Davoud <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> jc :

>> Files is pretty good. Of course nothing is as good as the old system
>> of making it just look like a USB disk, but "Apple knows best...".
>
> Uh, I would say it's the Windows world that is guiding this. You see,
> before Apple realized that their mobile products _had_ to be
> Windows-compatible in order to sell big, we had FireWire--superior in
> speed to USB, including USB 2 (FW 800). But, as the old-time Morse-code
> radio operators used to say, you have to send for the slowest guy on
> the net, and since Windows-only machines have spotty FW support, Apple
> switched its mobile devices to USB.

IPhones had FireWire support?

The USB has been king for a long time now. Everything is USB nowadays. If
you want to continue along that line, I guess you could call it "bad
planning". My guess is that it has to do with portability, like Java. If
you are Apple, portability is all you have.

Whatever... If you want to start a PC/Apple war, knock yourselves out. I am
here because of a (preliminarily) stunningly impressive handheld device.

Good luck and have fun.

In article <050720091227234623%(E-Mail Removed)>, Davoud <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

> > One piece of advice. Be sure to configure your router to
> > always assign the same ip address to your iPhone. That
> > way, you can create a desktop shortcut without having
> > to reconfigure it every time.
>
> On the Mac a network device shows up regardless of the IP address. It's
> a Unix thing, the ability to display all computers on the same subnet
> without the user having to configure anything.

actually that's bonjour, which is built-in on macs and iphones and can
be installed for windows.