Android vs iOS

scottalanmiller

The iPhone can be connected to laptop by any USB cables???

Connected, of course. But connecting, as you know, is not enough. It needs a file transfer mechanism, just like Bluetooth does. So the question remains... if he takes his iPhone and plugs it into the USB of his laptop... can you transfer a file? I don't believe so.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said:

@Lakshmana said:

My friend is having laptop in his home and will transfer the ISO file to his laptop.
After copying the file he will make the file as bootable.

Can you do that with an iPhone? How will he get the file from the iPhone to the laptop? Maybe you can do this, but I am unaware of it being possible.

yeah - you can, with the help of iTunes, actually make an iPhone/iPod into a mobile storage device aka memory stick. But again, huge pain, not working as designed.

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Lakshmana said:

My friend is having laptop in his home and will transfer the ISO file to his laptop.
After copying the file he will make the file as bootable.

Can you do that with an iPhone? How will he get the file from the iPhone to the laptop? Maybe you can do this, but I am unaware of it being possible.

yeah - you can, with the help of iTunes, actually make an iPhone/iPod into a mobile storage device aka memory stick. But again, huge pain, not working as designed.

Can you use that for file transfers? I thought that that was blocked. It at least used to be.

Minion Queen

You need to stop trying to use the phones in a way that neither of them are meant to be used. Install drop box or Onedrive on a desktop transfer the ISO file to the account and then the person can go home and log in to which ever one you pick and get the file that way.

Or get a USB stick and copy the file to it from a desktop/laptop and hand it to your friend.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Lakshmana said:

My friend is having laptop in his home and will transfer the ISO file to his laptop.
After copying the file he will make the file as bootable.

Can you do that with an iPhone? How will he get the file from the iPhone to the laptop? Maybe you can do this, but I am unaware of it being possible.

yeah - you can, with the help of iTunes, actually make an iPhone/iPod into a mobile storage device aka memory stick. But again, huge pain, not working as designed.

Can you use that for file transfers? I thought that that was blocked. It at least used to be.

actually - today I have no clue - but you could in the past.

Minion Queen

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Lakshmana said:

My friend is having laptop in his home and will transfer the ISO file to his laptop.
After copying the file he will make the file as bootable.

Can you do that with an iPhone? How will he get the file from the iPhone to the laptop? Maybe you can do this, but I am unaware of it being possible.

yeah - you can, with the help of iTunes, actually make an iPhone/iPod into a mobile storage device aka memory stick. But again, huge pain, not working as designed.

Can you use that for file transfers? I thought that that was blocked. It at least used to be.

You have to do a bit to make it do this.

scottalanmiller

If he could use OneDrive, the friend could just download the ISO directly. Obviously the issue here is no Internet access. But the answer should not be phones, it should be a USB stick.

Dashrender

Agreed.

The Android user should connect the Android phone to a local computer and transfer the file to the computer. Then plug in a USB memory stick and transfer the file from the local computer to the USB stick.

Then the iPhone user can take the USB stick home.

this would be the fastest solution.

nadnerB

Cloud storage would be twice as expensive as downloading it again on a metered connection.
No Internet connection, then... SD, micro SD or USB. They are the only methods that are going to accomplish the transfer in a reliable and fast way.
Bluetooth will probably crap out part way through.

You MIGHT be able to use AirDrop or WiFI Direct but I've never used them before and not every device is compatible with either or both.

Lakshmana

@scottalanmiller USB Sticks are not allowed in the office

nadnerB

@Lakshmana said:

@scottalanmiller USB Sticks are not allowed in the office

You have a car park, right?

Dashrender

@Lakshmana said:

@scottalanmiller USB Sticks are not allowed in the office

Well, you mentioned that the iPhone friend has a laptop, ask him to bring it to work tomorrow and leave it in the car. Then at lunch go out to his car and plug the android phone into the laptop and transfer the file directly to his laptop.

scottalanmiller

@Lakshmana said:

@scottalanmiller USB Sticks are not allowed in the office

Sounds like trying to bypass the rules on a technicality. If you can plug your phone into a USB port and use it as storage, it becomes a USB stick and wouldn't be allowed in the office.

scottalanmiller

@nadnerB said:

@Lakshmana said:

@scottalanmiller USB Sticks are not allowed in the office

You have a car park, right?

Yup, just do it outside rather than inside.

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

@Lakshmana said:

@scottalanmiller USB Sticks are not allowed in the office

Well, you mentioned that the iPhone friend has a laptop, ask him to bring it to work tomorrow and leave it in the car. Then at lunch go out to his car and plug the android phone into the laptop and transfer the file directly to his laptop.

I'm guessing that cars here are extremely unlikely.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@Lakshmana said:

@scottalanmiller USB Sticks are not allowed in the office

Well, you mentioned that the iPhone friend has a laptop, ask him to bring it to work tomorrow and leave it in the car. Then at lunch go out to his car and plug the android phone into the laptop and transfer the file directly to his laptop.

I'm guessing that cars here are extremely unlikely.

OK, then where will he put his USB stick that he brings from home that he said they are not allowed to have in the office? Or maybe he can have it on his person, just not plug it into business computers - in that case, bring the laptop into your office with you, but just go outside to do the transfers.

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@Lakshmana said:

@scottalanmiller USB Sticks are not allowed in the office

Well, you mentioned that the iPhone friend has a laptop, ask him to bring it to work tomorrow and leave it in the car. Then at lunch go out to his car and plug the android phone into the laptop and transfer the file directly to his laptop.

I'm guessing that cars here are extremely unlikely.

OK, then where will he put his USB stick that he brings from home that he said they are not allowed to have in the office? Or maybe he can have it on his person, just not plug it into business computers - in that case, bring the laptop into your office with you, but just go outside to do the transfers.

He has to be allowed to have one or else the phones would not be allowed, right?

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@Lakshmana said:

@scottalanmiller USB Sticks are not allowed in the office

Well, you mentioned that the iPhone friend has a laptop, ask him to bring it to work tomorrow and leave it in the car. Then at lunch go out to his car and plug the android phone into the laptop and transfer the file directly to his laptop.

I'm guessing that cars here are extremely unlikely.

OK, then where will he put his USB stick that he brings from home that he said they are not allowed to have in the office? Or maybe he can have it on his person, just not plug it into business computers - in that case, bring the laptop into your office with you, but just go outside to do the transfers.

He has to be allowed to have one or else the phones would not be allowed, right?

LOL - you'd certainly like to think that if no USB sticks are allowed, they would ban phones - but more often than not, I've seen tons of people just have no clue that a phone can be used as a memory stick.

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@Lakshmana said:

@scottalanmiller USB Sticks are not allowed in the office

Well, you mentioned that the iPhone friend has a laptop, ask him to bring it to work tomorrow and leave it in the car. Then at lunch go out to his car and plug the android phone into the laptop and transfer the file directly to his laptop.

I'm guessing that cars here are extremely unlikely.

OK, then where will he put his USB stick that he brings from home that he said they are not allowed to have in the office? Or maybe he can have it on his person, just not plug it into business computers - in that case, bring the laptop into your office with you, but just go outside to do the transfers.

He has to be allowed to have one or else the phones would not be allowed, right?

LOL - you'd certainly like to think that if no USB sticks are allowed, they would ban phones - but more often than not, I've seen tons of people just have no clue that a phone can be used as a memory stick.

No, I'm saying that banning USB sticks DOES ban phones that have USB stick as part of their functionality. Just like banning guns would ban any product that contained a gun. The banning of USB Sticks would be inclusive of anything with a USB Stick inside of it, like the phones. Otherwise you could just keep it in your pocket and since it was "part of your coat" you'd be okay.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@Lakshmana said:

@scottalanmiller USB Sticks are not allowed in the office

Well, you mentioned that the iPhone friend has a laptop, ask him to bring it to work tomorrow and leave it in the car. Then at lunch go out to his car and plug the android phone into the laptop and transfer the file directly to his laptop.

I'm guessing that cars here are extremely unlikely.

OK, then where will he put his USB stick that he brings from home that he said they are not allowed to have in the office? Or maybe he can have it on his person, just not plug it into business computers - in that case, bring the laptop into your office with you, but just go outside to do the transfers.

He has to be allowed to have one or else the phones would not be allowed, right?

LOL - you'd certainly like to think that if no USB sticks are allowed, they would ban phones - but more often than not, I've seen tons of people just have no clue that a phone can be used as a memory stick.

No, I'm saying that banning USB sticks DOES ban phones that have USB stick as part of their functionality. Just like banning guns would ban any product that contained a gun. The banning of USB Sticks would be inclusive of anything with a USB Stick inside of it, like the phones. Otherwise you could just keep it in your pocket and since it was "part of your coat" you'd be okay.

I completely agree with you... what I'm saying is that I've run into policy makers that don't understand that phones are memory sticks.. and think "oh it's just a phone, you can bring that on in"