Apps on SD card is cr*p that I wish we'd never needed to do.  The MTP
approach with Honeycomb is far, far better.  Issues with interacting through
MTP from PCs can be worked out; having to use USB mass storage for transfer
has fundamental issues such as requiring a hard partition between the
storage areas, having to unmount during transfer, etc.

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Chris Stratton <cs07...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, May 31, 2011 10:29:50 AM UTC-4, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Drew <zit...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > That's a shame that apps on the SD card have
>> > so many limitations.
>>
>> I think that the long-term direction is to blur some of the space
>> distinctions between internal and external storage, so that "apps on
>> the SD card" can fade into history.
>>
> Yeah... but now the postings from people experience pain from transition
> from USB mass storage to MTP are starting to show up.
>
> USB mass storage - surrendering the file system to an external computer -
> was never a good solution, except for its "works everywhere" portability.
> Until something post-mass-storage is consistently deployed on most desktops
> and understood by most desktop developers, there may not be a good solution.
>
>
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