Finder application

Question

So I just got my iPad a couple weeks ago and I'm really enjoying it, however, I've got some ideas of a couple things that could be added in the release of iOS 4 for the iPad that I think would be useful and make the iPad really live up to it's potential. One of my ideas is the addition of a Finder-like application similar to the one on a Mac computer. The application would be used to access the file system of the iPad. Of course a file system would have to be created for this to work. What I mean is to basically set up folders and such like you would have on a regular computer. Have like "My Documents," "My Pictures" folders set up on the iPad. So rather than only accessing photos in the photos application, you could also navigate to the photos through the Finder application - maybe have it show thumbnails of the photos rather than actually being able to open the file, but this way one would have a way to manage files more like he would on a mac laptop or computer. Also in the Finder application, one could access and manage files created in Pages without having to open Pages. or in Email, for example, if one was to be emailed a file, he could save it in "My Documents" and later access it in Pages or even from another app when he was ready to use the file again. This way all files saved on the iPad could be accessed from one place rather than accessing different types of files in different applications. If this application was added I think it would set apart the iPad from an iPod Touch or iPhone in giving it more functionality as a tablet computer. Also with a file system created on the device itself, one could have access to the contents of the iPad without having to go through iTunes. So, say a person uses their iPad in business and wants to sync documents to it to take home and either then transfer them to another computer for use, or use Pages at another time to edit the document but their computer at the office does not have itunes, he could simply plug the iPad into the computer and access certain parts of the file system to copy and paste files or even whole folders of documents and pictures onto the iPad as if it were a flash drive or an external hard drive or something of the sort. I know i've just rambled a lot and probably confused anyone reading this but basically what i'm envisioning for this application is that it can be opened from the home screen and shows basically the same thing you would see if you opened Finder on a Mac or Windows Explorer on a PC. Once you've gotten to the folder that contains a file you are looking for you can tap that file and be presented with different options such as "Email" "Open in Pages" "Open in Photos" "Quick Look" etc. I would think this sort of file system on the iPad could be accessed in any application like Dropbox or things like that. Or in Pages there would be an "Open" button rather than just "My Documents" and you could see different folders with documents in them. Also in the Finder application, I would like to see a way to create new folders, giving users a way to create some organization with their files. Just an idea, but I could see endless possibilities for an application like this on this device. I think it wold truly set apart the iPad from not only the iPod Touch and iPhone, but also from the competition.

Answer 1

Nice thatnyou have put this all this together, but nobody from apple is reading this for ideas. You should place this into (a few) feature suggestions at http://www.apple.com/feedback
Jason