alt Hacker NewsDo you mean like...iTunes? Huh?
I know approximately zero people who still tether an iPhone to a desktop for any sort of backups.
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throwaway1389z • 01/03/2026
No.
Do you mean like...iTunes? Huh?
I know approximately zero people who still tether an iPhone to a desktop for any sort of backups.
No.
Even if it was still a thing (and it really isn’t, imo), libimobiledevice does a decent job already, and given a little funding it shouldn’t be super hard to close the gaps and build a nice UI on top of it. But that’s not happening because very few people care about it at all.
Now, AirDrop support is a completely different beast. But it requires hardware support (promiscuous mode, iirc) that many common chipsets simply lack.