Still have really no idea what the difference is between all my options. I have "Media player" "Mass storage" "PC Internet" and the Samsung entry. Mass Storage doesn't show anything on my Mac, even when I hit mount on the phone. Media Player does the same thing as Kies, switching to MTP Application and rendering the phone useless. PC Internet does nothing, even though my Mac saw a new network interface.
While there's no excuse for an MTP or mass-storage implementation that doesn't actually work (nor for bad UI or bad documentation), it's important to realise that the reason you're given more choices here than an Iphone gives you, is because your phone can do useful things that an Iphone can't. There's no mass-storage ("act as a USB key") support on Iphone, though there was on earlier Ipods; and surely "PC Internet" is USB tethering, which Iphone can't do either.
Actually no, the iPhone can and does do USB tethering (appears as a network interface) since v3.0 software.
iPhone doesn't do mass storage, no, because it doesn't use anything as broken as FAT for internal storage (something that we'd decided was a good idea at Rio, though the market didn't agree
) and also because there's no restriction on things that can happen when connected to USB - on the android phones, when connected to USB and "mounted", nothing can access the FAT partition for obvious reasons.
Yes, you can pick "charge only" if you want to use the phone when connected to USB, and at least it doesn't go into airplane mode when plugged into USB (like the Palm Pre) but personally I don't find the lack of MSC a problem on the phone.
The fact that their MSC implementation doesn't work with macs sounds like a pretty obvious bug; Macs don't have problems with every other MSC device I've ever tried so they're not doing anything out of the ordinary. I wonder if it passes the USB-IF MSC test?
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