Comment 4 for bug 1539303

Micro USB is a great way to put content on a device, and AFAICS most people don't know this is possible. But this is largely because in general it *isn't* possible, it requires USB OTG which many (most?) phones don't have. And if someone tries to use micro USB and that doesn't work, that's even worse than the micro SD case, since it's not physically clear if a phone has OTG or not.

This is why I think Ubuntu should provide a helping hand by detecting which options are available on this specific phone and making that clear. Most important would be removing the SD card bit from the graphic if there's no SD card slot. Also useful would be adding a micro USB graphic if the phone supports OTG. But IMO having a graphic that is misleading is worse than having no graphic at all.

It's not like Apple's lack of MTL support is some kind of mistake. They deliberately don't support it because they want to use iOS to leverage OS X and vice versa. This is normal practice and isn't going away soon - if Apple didn't do it, someone else would. There is a "install a special piece of software" hiding in the "and simply" here and that really is misleading.

Is there a way to detect when the phone is plugged into OS X and do something about it? Pop up a suggestion or something? Or, dream of dreams, provide a tiny mass storage drive containing an OS X app for communicating with the phone.