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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
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Subject: Re: iPhone USB access
Date: 22 Dec 2024 20:19:19 GMT
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B00ze <B00ze64@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Good day.
> 
> I'm an Android user thinking of getting an iPhone, and I see articles 
> about apps that let ppl share files with their PCs, and I'm wondering 
> why is there such an app? If I plug an iPhone into my PC's USB port, do 
> I not get access to the iPhone's filesysten?

  Others have already answered your specific questions.

  As to "I'm an Android user thinking of getting an iPhone": As you're a
Windows user ('PC' != Windows), I would advise against buying/using an
iPhone.

  The Android-Windows integration is not great, but there is - as you
have found - some. For iPhone-Windows, there's hardly anything, except
for the iTunes abomination.

  Granted, the Windows 'Phone Link' app apparently supports Android
smartphones and iPhones. But with the iPhones being 'closed' and the
Android smartphones being (more) 'open', I think with an iPhone you'll
be in for a disappointment.

  OTOH, if you intend to use the iPhone mostly by itself and hardly need
to exchange anything (other than photos from its camera) with your
Windows system, by all means go for it.

  FWIW, I've been confronted with the iPhone-Windows limitations. OTOH,
some of my loved ones are an all-Apple houshold and they are very, very
pleased with it, including the *HP* :-) printer.