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> Wouldn't it have been much nicer if BFE simply mounted the phone as a > drive on the desktop, so I could use the Finder instead of some > half-arsed reimplementation of it? Yes, it would. Good god, and on the other tentacle Apple implements FTP downloads in Safari by using the Finder... where that's almost never what you want to do, and opens up a variety of interesting security issues. And while I'm thinking about it, I hate the way Apple does remote file system mounts. OH LOOK, I MOUNTED HOME ON SYSTEM1 TO GET TO MY HOME DIRECTORY, BUT NOW WHAT IF I WANT TO MOUNT HOME ON SYSTEM2? WHAT HAPPENS? DO I GET TWO HOME ICONS ON THE DESKTOP? DOES IT COMPLAIN? I DON'T KNOW, I'M SCARED TO TRY. They could have done what Microsoft did and called it "sharename on systemname" or what UNIX does and called it "systemname/sharename", but no, that wouldn't SUCK enough. And now apparently they're copying Microsoft's "let's play games with people's heads by making every API have a different idea of where the root of the filesystem is" in Panther. AUGH.
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