If you have had the chance to use an iPhone or iPod Touch, you might have noticed a “small” inconvenience: these devices do not appear as removable storage drives in Windows, like prior versions of iPod (classic, nano, etc). This effectively prevents the iPhone and iPod Touch to be used for data transfer. There is some discussion online about why and how this happened. In my opinion, this is a two thumbs down situation for Apple for trying to limit the possible uses of these cool devices. I hope that this business model will soon be replaced by a more open-platform approach.
Fortunately, Albert Pelhe, a good friend of mine, informed me about a workaround to this problem. DigiDNA came up with DiskAid, an application that lets the user copy files to and from the iPhone and iPod Touch. It is freeware and claims to have 0% of adware, spyware and virus content. The only inconvenience is that it must be installed on every computer where the device is meant to be used as a removable disk drive.
If anyone from Apple reads this blog I have a request for them: please let information flow freely. You can try to control it, but you will become unpopular in the realm of techies. Thanks,
Oszkar