I don’t have any Apple products.
But they use them at college. They have a rack full of them.
Used for quite bit of video recording, especially in teacher training.
Thing is: They have to upload the videos to youtube or some such. They can’t just copy the files off the iPad like through a cable connection.
All the other school computers are Windows.
So I say: Surely you can connect these things to windows?? But apparently not!
Who had the bright idea of getting iPads then I say? … :\
So I wonder why they didn’t choose Android or Microsoft tablets?
If anyone knows different
ie: Has connected windows or Linux to ipads, I’d be interested… (Don’t know which model they are… not the latest for sure)
I think there are apps to do that, of course it costs… good business model if you ask me…
I use sftp or bluetooth, but that’s android to linux…
But I thought hooking it to their Tunes app gives access, but I guess that it needs to be registered etc, can only be used on x amount of computer etc…sigh
On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 18:16:01 +0000, caf4926 wrote:
> I don’t have any Apple products.
> But they use them at college. They have a rack full of them.
> Used for quite bit of video recording, especially in teacher training.
>
> Thing is: They have to upload the videos to youtube or some such. They
> can’t just copy the files off the iPad like through a cable connection.
> All the other school computers are Windows.
>
> So I say: Surely you can connect these things to windows?? But
> apparently not!
>
> Who had the bright idea of getting iPads then I say? … :
>
> So I wonder why they didn’t choose Android or Microsoft tablets?
>
> If anyone knows different ie: Has connected windows or Linux to ipads,
> I’d be interested… (Don’t know which model they are… not the latest
> for sure)
I seem to recall there is a way to do it, but the iPad doesn’t present
itself as a normal filesystem of any sort, so getting files off of it
still proved to be a bit of a challenge.
I think there’s an iOS version of btsync, which doesn’t require a “cloud”
to transfer files, but instead will keep things synced between local
devices. I use the Linux and Android versions myself, and quite like it.
iPads and Chromebooks take a similar approach: do everything through the cloud. In many contexts - for example, when the engineers came round to plan the installation of my new central heating boiler - this makes far more sense than carrying round all the paraphernalia for a physical connection.
I suspect the younger generation will soon look as bemused at the mention of a cable connection as a young adult geek recently was by the mention of RS232.
On 2014-02-03 22:56, john hudson wrote:
>
> iPads and Chromebooks take a similar approach: do everything through the
> cloud. In many contexts - for example, when the engineers came round to
> plan the installation of my new central heating boiler - this makes far
> more sense than carrying round all the paraphernalia for a physical
> connection.
>
> I suspect the younger generation will soon look as bemused at the
> mention of a cable connection as a young adult geek recently was by the
> mention of RS232.
Except those “security conscious” (aka paranoids), or “speed freaks”
Just wait for the fiber USB7 standard.
(or not wait - such a thing is technologically possible as soon as they
want to. But if they release it, other current technologies are
unsalable. Better wait.)
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
Perhaps financially better for educational institutions or establishments. Someone (from the US) once offered to get me an Apple laptop as they purchased IIRC at a large discount, probably halving the cost.
caf4926 wrote:
>
> I don’t have any Apple products.
> But they use them at college. They have a rack full of them.
> Used for quite bit of video recording, especially in teacher training.
>
> Thing is: They have to upload the videos to youtube or some such. They
> can’t just copy the files off the iPad like through a cable connection.
> All the other school computers are Windows.
>
> So I say: Surely you can connect these things to windows?? But
> apparently not!
>
> Who had the bright idea of getting iPads then I say? … :
>
> So I wonder why they didn’t choose Android or Microsoft tablets?
>
> If anyone knows different
> ie: Has connected windows or Linux to ipads, I’d be interested…
> (Don’t know which model they are… not the latest for sure)
>
>
Will a bluetooth dongle on the desktop fit the bill ?
My 2 cents: where Microsoft locked you in with their software, Apple locks you in through your data, this on top of their hard- and software, which are designed to lock you in. I know of one school where they were offered finance for a tablet project and dismissed the iPad for this. But only because someone in charge had seen how Apple invaded his home through his teenage daughters - “I need my laptop to be Apple otherwise I can’t access my …”. The school went for Android tablets with stock unrooted Android, had a couple of apps developped for the teachers and students to connect it to the existing school systems (partly windows network, partly cloud based), sent two sysadmins on a training, and still used less than 70% of the budget.
That makes sense
I just had a discussion with one of the other tutors and apparently they are having a good moan at the IT dept.
Probably falling on deaf ears IMO
For me I always say this to help somone connect thier apple product to a linux device:
Step 1: take your idevice outside
Step 2: grab the largest hammer you can find
Step 3: proceed to pound the hammer heavily onto said apple iproduct
Step 4: buy an android (perferably a samsung galaxy tab)
I don’t have ipad but I have two friends who have ipad. When I asked them why they choose ipad over windows. There answer was their file was more secure than windows.
Speaking of security - Stallman claims that some features of Ubuntu are “spyware.” And of course, you already know what he most likely thinks of both Apple & Microsoft! So to bring it back to Ipads - I doubt they are more or less secure than similar MS tablets. And everyone knows that Google monitors all your use of their software, or hardware, so really nothing is that secure in the tablet market, including Android devices. Home networks of Apple products are notoriously insecure and there have been cases of people losing everything to cyber vandals via cracking into their Apple accounts, and then into their Apple laptops, desktops, Ipads, etc. because they all share the same credentials.
What is happening at the college where I am attending is: 100’s of students use these every day. Often to record video footage of course work practical. This footage then needs extracting. And only the IT dept_ can do this. So it’s all moans and groans from them, but it’s of their own making.
Another thing. I received back a 5 min training session video this week and it was nearly 600MB LOL !
Ran it thru VLC and now it’s a more respectable 12MB
Who had the bright idea of getting iPads then I say? … :\