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by rcarmo 622 days ago
I don't get why iOS doesn't have filesystem notebooks on the comparison table.
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jedberg 622 days ago
It has iCloud Drive instead, which is the closest equivalent to a filesystem on iOS
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rcarmo 622 days ago
So you can't use other file providers? That tech is really stable now, I've been using it for years to edit a git repo inside Working Copy or files inside other apps using yet another set of apps (Textastic, iA Writer, even vim inside a-Shell). You should really consider reviewing that viewpoint.
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alwayslikethis 622 days ago
The fact that iOS doesn't really have a real filesystem you can use, would be my guess.
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Towaway69 622 days ago
As someone who left iOS for Android because of that, I was pleasantly surprised - when I went back - to find that iOS now has a Files app for managing files on the device and also network shares.

iOS has definitely improved in that area and definitely now has a filesystem.

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rcarmo 622 days ago
As someone who regularly uses vim inside iOS to edit files from another application and syncs the whole lot via SyncThing, I beg to differ.

From a filesystem perspective, it's no different from jails or container mount points.

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