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As a user, I don't like the fact that apps now own my data.
by silon42 4y ago
As a user, I don't like the fact that apps now own my data.
- alpaca128 4y agoThat's the typical difference in expectations between users. Some users don't even want to think about what the computer is doing and want to avoid all the complexity, others don't want the computer to do any thinking for them because they might be aware of all the ways things could go wrong, and part of that is transparency and data ownership/control. I'm definitely in the second group, whenever I see an app just saying "click this button to magically do the thing" I immediately worry about where the files are stored and how I'd back them up and how I could reverse the changes when (not if) something goes wrong.
- wolpoli 4y agoI remember how Windows 95 was said to be document centric. It's now 2022 and we don't have documents to speak of.
- solardev 4y agoMaybe to your point, I don't even understand what "document" means in this context. Can you explain?
- BlueTemplar 4y agohttps://invisibleup.com/articles/34/ https://invisibleup.com/articles/34/ > What Windows 95 wanted to do was to create a document-centric workflow where the application was out of the user's way and it only provided the means to let the user manipulate files. > It needed to somehow take this file-centric workflow and bolt it onto application-centric DOS.