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That was maybe true before, but in that era for me it's pretty clear that they are chasing the bulk of new internet users for which the folder/files metaphor is
by tarsinge 7y ago
That was maybe true before, but in that era for me it's pretty clear that they are chasing the bulk of new internet users for which the folder/files metaphor is not intuitive. They use social media websites and apps and have photos/videos that they access through an app, not from a file explorer (desktop OS are moving in the same direction of abstracting the filesystem too). That's why they (and Google Drive and others) are moving from "a folder that sync" to "let's auto detect and sync media".
- jbverschoor 7y agoGood luck organizing. “Search” is not an archiving mechanism. And I don’t like containers per app. It makes no sense. You have something, could be a project, event, a library and there is data associated with this. The data are files. If I’m looking at scans of of receipts, I do not want and currently I’m not able to search for all receipts in a given period. I don’t want my photos to be in one big folder. I have my own mental model of how it should be organized. There’s a reason gmail supports “folders” these days