Yes, the blackberry has had applications...

...Longer than the Iphone has been in existence, in fact one of my favourite is Filescout, and among other things allows you to take a look and modify the blackberry file structure. I'm sure you can do that too on the ipad, but probably you have to jailbreak it. On the blackberry all I have to do is to install the app and voila.

It seems that nowadays if there is not a software shop of some sort people do not know how to load software onto a computer.