Earlier this week, Apple pushed an update for the iDisk application in the App Store. The update, iDisk 1.2, brings official support for the iPad as well as the ability to multitask within iOS4 on an iPhone 4 or 3GS.
There are hardly any cosmetic differences between the iPhone and iPad version of the iDisk application, but it’s a lot more usable than up-scalling the iPhone version to access files on the go, as the screen’s real estate is put to much better use.
The addition of multitasking comes as no great surprise despite it not necessarily being the sort of application that you would necessarily need to multitask with. Apple offers a few scenarios of when you might, however, such as playing music that is stored in your iDisk, or returning to a specific folder within your iDisk when you next open the application. No real deal sealers here, but a few welcome updates all the same.
The update, available from the App Store, also adds the ability to open files in their respective applications: a PDF in iBooks, or a .pages in, you guessed it, Pages. Documents and other files can now also be shared from any email address that you have configured with your iPhone or iPad, too, not just your MobileMe account.
Of course, the update also brings “various stability improvements,” but there’s no word on whether the icon or graphics were updated to maximise on the iPhone 4′s retina display. Grab the update and let us know, won’t you?
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So people who were complaining that the iPad Pages app can't import from their iDisk are now able to. So that should stop the complaints right? Well, what about when you have finished editing your document and want to send that back to iDisk? Erm….. Yes, stuck again.
I am eagerly awaiting Pages for the iPhone, but will obviously come up against the same issue. At the moment I use both iDisk and Dropbox for my Mac and iPhone, and Dropbox I have to say is far quicker and easier to use, with more functionality and even better Finder integration. But I can't see Apple having the ability to export Page documents back to Dropbox anytime soon.
You have a valid point, Barry – it's still a glaring issue that needs a solution. You'd think Apple would want a little more integration between their own applications.
Maybe they're working on a way to allow this, and offer some way to view and organise files on the device without opening the operating system too much.