> some of that is simply that we haven't yet figured out how to make online objects as personal/accessible as files were; Here you admit that files are inadequ

> some of that is simply that we haven't yet figured out how to make online objects as personal/accessible as files were; Here you admit that files are inadequate. > if there were more examples of online, connected software that had malleability, that had a file-like option, i'd be way more willing to negotiate what users want. right now that feels extremely premature. right now the technical gaps, to get as good as files were, are too high to begin to say. I agree with this, but you are continuing to concede that files simply weren’t good enough to meet users needs, so they chose something else. From the options available, users have not chosen files. It’s not unreasonable to speculate that users would choose something better than files that nobody has successfully engineered yet. I would very much like to believe that is true.