[coldtea]

Depends on the pro apps.

In the age of iCloud, Dropbox, and 200 other services and alternative ways to move stuff, why would one want to use a FTP client (like the Transmit above) on the iPad?

The market for FTP clients is small enough on the desktop...

(Heck, I'm a developer, I have a Transmit license since 2006 or so, I work with dozens of remote machines, and seldom ever use it. It's either sftp on the command line, or something like an Ansible wrapper etc).

[milgrim]

Transmit on iOS is not only a FTP client and I never used it for that. The integration into the iOS share sheet with SSH file transfer support is perfect for me and I use this all the time. Are there any reliable alternatives that are still actively developed?

[coldtea]

Yeah, I know, I have a license for it on OS X. It also does SCP/SFTP/S3 and others. But in the end it's still a pretty limited offering, for special cases (geeks wanting to use the iPad for administration or development, for example).

Not the kind of mass market app the general iPad users would buy en masse.

[jsilence]

Also lftp has been working since the middle ages and will continue to do so. Cross platform.

The point is that convenient file transfer is a long solved problem with nice foss tools that are never going to stop working because of consumer market shifts.