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It takes roughly 30 seconds, and no additional software, to reformat it for the Mac, as others have mentioned. Use Disk Utility, erase drive and reformat for Mac OS Extended (Journaled). It will work forever more with any macs you encounter...
If you're a little more adept with computers/software, your options expand to using a rooted Android device, a file manager, an OTG cable and external drives (though some can be finicky, and some need a power supply)... or the same with with a jailbroken iOS device, a camera connector kit w/ USB (these can also be finicky), and external drives or thumbdrives (though the former may need a powered USB hub in the mix), and iFile from Cydia.
Or you can get those wireless drives, but they tend to be slow and finicky.
It's really a shame Apple is so locked down. It's a no brainer: one should be able to plug an iOS device, particularly a retina ipad/mini, into a powered USB hub and be able to use a full file manager to at minimum copy folders between two drives/pen drives as well as import RAW/JPG/Video into the iOS device... without jailbreaking. It's a damn near perfect use scenario for photographers who don't want to lug around a laptop for backup to external sources and don't want to carry around a dedicated backup vault alongside the iOS device they are already carrying. It's marginally easier on a rooted Android device, but Apple's otherwise integrated system would allow such a use case easy to implement and easy to run smoothly... and Apple could still play it's locked-down file system game by only allowing the file manager in question to access external drives freely (limit the file manager to only importing certain files to where Apple wants them to go on the iOS device, while allowing move/copy/delete on the external drives).
/rant over
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