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Do not want. Limiting the amount of interaction the end user has with a hierarchical filesystem may well be a Good Thing. Increasing the degree to which each a
by Zak 17y ago
Do not want.
Limiting the amount of interaction the end user has with a hierarchical filesystem may well be a Good Thing. Increasing the degree to which each application is a black box containing all associated data is a Bad Thing. Making each application responsible for the mechanism by which data can be transferred, archived and synchronized is also a Bad Thing.
- jf 17y agoExcellent point. As frustrated as I am with the limitations of the "file" and "directory" abstractions. Without them, transfer, archival, and synchronization of data would likely be far more difficult than it is now. Not that the systems we have now are anything to be proud of.
- protomyth 17y agoIt seems Apple has evolved the iPad past "application / data - same place". It now looks like a common area with different types of data accessible by apps. This is actually a pretty good solution. People know how to use a search engine and the current hierarchy is not a good solution.
- orangecat 17y agoRight. Getting rid of the (constantly visible) filesystem could be a good thing if it's replaced by a metadata-rich database that lets you do interesting queries. But based on Apple's recent history they won't actually expose any of that functionality, and we'll be limited to what the apps are specifically written to do.