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> For people with a document-centric view of the world, programs aren’t really things that you think about. What you really work on are documents. This seems o
by ubercow13 5y ago
> For people with a document-centric view of the world, programs aren’t really things that you think about. What you really work on are documents.
This seems outdated - computers are very app-centric now. Stuff is usually found inside an app, not a document, and the filesystem barely exists.
- perryizgr8 5y agoThe only device this work flow seems to be natural in is Iphone (which is barely a computer). Nothing else works like that. So no, computers are not at all "app-centric". They are always file-centric.
- signal11 5y ago> This seems outdated - computers are very app-centric now. Stuff is usually found inside an app, not a document, and the filesystem barely exists. Which is why Google spent $$$ on a whole gTLD to enable new document creation :-) https://doc.new https://doc.new, https://spreadsheet.new https://spreadsheet.new etc.
- raxxorrax 5y agoWhich is bad UI in my opinion. Especially since you can use media for association. What is a song? A picture? A model? A script? A book? A document? All those things are files. Apps deprecate fast and so would all the data contained within them.