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Mac OS X requires a helper program to connect to Android 3.0 tablets
The program, which is aptly named Android File Transfer, provides third-party Media Transfer Protcol (MTP) support, which Mac OS X doesn't natively provide. MTP started off as a Windows Media Player technology, which is probably why Apple doesn't support it, but today it's represented by a standard USB device class and an extension of its precursor, PTP.
MTP support is definitely a step up as far as Android is concerned. Rather than 'turn on mass storage mode,' which locks local apps out of your SD card, MTP allows both the phone and the PC to access your phone's filesystem at the same time. Hopefully Medial Transfer Protocol will find its way to the smartphone version of Android in due course
Incidentally, it's possible that the upcoming version of OS X, Lion, could support MTP. If anyone has Lion, and a Motorola Xoom, we'd love to know if you've had any luck connecting them.
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Subscribe to commentsDan TentlerMar 1st 2011 5:40PM
I have a xoom. I practice information security as well, so I see things from a slightly different angle.
Heres a quick blogpost I put together on it the day I got it:
http://atenlabs.com/blog/12-hours-with-the-motorola-xoom/
As far as file transfers go, i find its a lot easier to just use the samba/SMB based tools freely available in the market - it just shows up as a shared folder and you can copy/paste stuff to it freely between various operating systems, osx, windows and linux.
I've even found an SMB server on the thing, so presumably, once I get things worked out, I'll be able to take photos with my camera, using an eyefi transfer the images via tethered wifi and SMB to the tablet, and immediately have them displayed for anyone who wants to see.
Sebastian AnthonyMar 2nd 2011 7:24AM
@Dan Tentler Hey! Thanks for stopping by.
We ought to write something up about using Samba to get stuff off smartphones/tablets...