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WWDC Tidbits: iDisk iPhone App, No ZFS Support in Snow Leopard Server?

In the wake of yesterday's big announcements from Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, several smaller items of interest have managed to fly under the radar.

- iDisk iPhone Application: Apple's "More Features" pages for the iPhone 3G and 3GS contain a section entitled "iPhone and MobileMe", which highlights several iPhone-related features for customers of Apple's MobileMe service. In addition to the "Find My iPhone" feature previewed during the keynote, Apple is also prominently featuring a forthcoming iDisk application that will allow users to easily access files stored on their iDisk from their iPhone.

The free iDisk app lets you view files on your iDisk right on your iPhone. Microsoft Office or iWork '09 documents, PDFs, video files, and more are viewable in landscape or portrait. Even access Public folders of other MobileMe members with a few taps.

The free application also allows for easy sharing of files with others.

With the iDisk app -- free on the App Store -- you can share files that are too big to email. Choose your recipients and iDisk sends an email with a link to download your files.


- No ZFS Support in Snow Leopard Server?: Apple's interest in Sun's ZFS file system as a possible replacement for OS X's current HFS+ file system has been an item of interest for several years, with rumors even suggesting that ZFS would be the default file system for OS X Leopard. While that change did not come to fruition, Apple has continued to signal its interest in ZFS and has long mentioned ZFS support as a feature of Snow Leopard Server. Apple, however, has now removed mention of ZFS from its revamped Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard specs page and makes no mention of it on its new OS X Server File System page.

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35 months ago
We don't need no stinkin' ZFS support!
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35 months ago
Cool, except iDisk doesn't exist on the app store...at least it didn't an hour ago when I saw this on apple.com
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35 months ago

Cool, except iDisk doesn't exist on the app store...at least it didn't an hour ago when I saw this on apple.com


it will be release along side of iPhone Software 3.0
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35 months ago

Cool, except iDisk doesn't exist on the app store...at least it didn't an hour ago when I saw this on apple.com


read fine print "application to be released alongside 3.0 firmware."

is this only to be used with mobileme?
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35 months ago
Is ZFS finished as far as anyone implementing it as a main filesystem? It sounds like vaporware to me. BeOS was suppose to have a filesystem that was all the rave and it disappeared too.

iDisk makes much more sense compared to having to email yourself documents as attachments to view them on your iPhone.
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35 months ago

We don't need no stinkin' ZFS support!

Well, not if we want to stay stuck in the last century with our Mac filesystems, anyway... I wonder if they're waiting to see how ZFS fares from the Sun/Oracle merger.
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35 months ago
iDisk app looks good. Looking forward to that one.
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35 months ago
As a mobileme customer, I'm looking forward to the idisk app. It would be so much better than simply attaching files and emailing myself so I can have access to those files on the phone.
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35 months ago
I'm am definetely loving all this MobileMe integration! Keep it coming!!!!
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35 months ago
my guess is Apple is considering using ZFS (or some other highly modern file system) throughout it's entire OS line, and not just the server version, thus it is saving that change for the next major OS release after Snow Leopard. maybe.
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