Drag and Drop

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I love taking photos. I also don’t believe these photos should just sit on my hard drive so I love sharing my photos. It could be on facebook, instagram or on a blog. It’s not everytime you take photos that you have access to a PC. Other times you love to share directly from your mobile device. What do all these have to do with drag and drop? Let me explain.

Imagine you want to add a folder of photos to your phone so you can share some of these photos whenever you feel like. But your phone doesn’t let you add these files until you launch a music player. This is my issue with the iPhone.

iPhone 5 Image courtesy of Apple.com

The only reason the iPhone wouldn’t be top of my list as my favorite phone is because I can’t simply drag photos onto it. I mean why is it so hard?! I just want to drag photos to my phone so I can share whenever. Other phones from other ecosystems (Android, Windows Phone, even Blackberry) let you seamlessly drag files across. This is the most basic of operations.

On iTunes, there is manual syncing for music; which means you can drag and drop audio files that may or may not be legally downloaded to your Apple device. So why is it so hard to drag photos that you have taken with your own hands in your own time to your own phone?

In the not so far future, Apple may tout this as a feature in one of their press conferences: “Introducing Drag and Drop!!!” - and make it a big deal. Until then, it just sucks that such an elegant device can be missing such a basic feature.