From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Feb 19 08:13:33 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86557F0C8FC for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 08:13:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) Received: from bca5.email-od.com (bca5.email-od.com [207.246.239.5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0DBCB86A1D for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 08:13:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1519028017; x=1521620017; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date:x-thread-info; bh=TOnCSkbMg4XXOW3MUDvZKjPK4vKs6yJ7/2iQDE1F+f0=; b=n/mLhCxh6z73G4fIBDKH46DVe/KCFxMg6b3iwFgQfCYL8htGTu6yXneMJAr5p5bujgL0xPY2Iharn3WnegNbLgGxcnH4obHnfJzL81yw4w+n5tTNe/jRLJm/AB5mFQn0yYgGIUq0LHJMSE4VdallKT0IohHSFQHKRhkuDFGr0AU= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi45MDAwMDAwMDJkMjc0ZS5mcmVlYnNkLXF1ZXN0aW9ucz1mcmVlYnNkLm9yZw== Received: from r3.us-east.aws.in.socketlabs.com (r3.us-east.aws.in.socketlabs.com [54.165.229.15]) by bca2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Mon, 19 Feb 2018 03:13:28 -0500 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [89.127.62.20]) by r3.us-east.aws.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Mon, 19 Feb 2018 03:13:21 -0500 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.90 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1engZc-0002kv-23; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 08:13:20 +0000 Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 08:13:19 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: "@lbutlr" Cc: Polytropon , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File fransfer from iPad to FreeBSD Message-Id: <20180219081319.6cdfb203b8a30acb2cf0538c@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20180216104703.555e9987.freebsd@edvax.de> <20180217191551.d0d3f3aa.freebsd@edvax.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.6.0 (GTK+ 2.24.31; amd64-portbld-freebsd11.0) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 08:13:33 -0000 On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 19:10:02 -0700 "@lbutlr" wrote: > On Feb 17, 2018, at 11:15, Polytropon wrote: > > > > And as macOS is "somehow UNIX or even BSD", why doesn't > > Apple provide a native iTunes program for FreeBSD? That > > would make them look more professional - and me happy. :-) > > Two reasons, while OS X (Er, macOS) is Unix based, the GUI that iTunes > runs in is much more than just a gnome-GUI and it would take massive > efforts to port something like iTunes to FreeBSD. Perhaps -but iTunes also runs on Windows so most of the code must be sitting on some kind of compatibility layer, it probably wouldn't be too hard to add another backend to it - not that it's going to happen, if it was there would have been a Linux version ages ago. > Second, it’s an insignificantly small market since it only includes those > very few people who run BSD and won’t use Windows or macOS. That of course is why the effort to add and maintain another backend won't be happening. > There’s a lot more whinging for Linux support, and that’s literally never > going to happen since that would be much more effort for o my slightly > larger user base. Yep. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith