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Android doesn't come with a text editor, either (last I checked). Doesn't iOS have them in the app store, like Android does? If so, that's not a closed ecosyst
by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
Android doesn't come with a text editor, either (last I checked). Doesn't iOS have them in the app store, like Android does?
If so, that's not a closed ecosystem. It's a consumption-oriented default install.
- sbr464 5y agoThe issue is that you can't pick up on one device where you left off on another. Adding an app changes/copies the file.
- readflaggedcomm 5y agoOh, data siloed by app (or app prefix). More like a closed workflow, but I could see "closed data ecosystem" describing it, now that I think of it. I didn't realize it was so bad. It reminds me of Macintoshes in the 80s and 90s, where you really needed a resource editor to fix and rearrange file creators in order to open things.
- sbr464 5y agoI thought it was interesting that any macos device could sync and edit a .txt file, including my m1 laptop, but my $1k+ iPhone by the same company could not edit/append to a .txt file.