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Everyone I know complains most about having no file system, but I agree the average mom who looks at her recipe app won't miss it.

by tehayj 14y ago

DavidAbrams 14y ago
Until she wants to send the recipe to her friend. Or move it to some other app after the vendor goes defunct. Or print it. Apologists for the crippled user experience act as though a file system is some kind of arcane "nerdy" or "geeky" facility. It isn't. It's how people organize information. That's why we have file cabinets and recipe boxes. It's also how multiple applications can act on the same files. In iOS we have mobile, handheld Unix computers that are ironically cut off from the outside world on purpose. On those computers we have applications that can't interact with each other or each other's data. This is not progress.
- jasonlotito 14y ago
  > Until she wants to send the recipe to her friend. Or move it to some other app after the vendor goes defunct. Or print it. The problem with that is she'll complain about the application being at fault. And maybe it is. After all, sending a recipe to a friend should be easy. And exporting the recipe to some standard format should be available. And printing is something that can happen. None of those complaints can be levied against iOS. Of course, the flip side is also true: the nature of iOS and the App Store means the app developers really are limited by what Apple will allow them to do. I hate reading app reviews that complain about things that aren't the fault of the app, but rather Apple or another 3rd party. In essence, I see a damned if you do, damned if you don't approach.
moe 14y ago
The proverbial "average mom" outnumbers the people who even know what a filesystem is by orders of magnitude. This is slowly changing and in 2-3 generations everybody will know what a folder-based filesystem was because it'll be prominently listed on the wikipedia page about broken computing metaphors of the past.

Everyone I know complains most about having no file system, but I agree the average mom who looks at her recipe app won't miss it.

by tehayj 14y ago

Everyone I know complains most about having no file system, but I agree the average mom who looks at her recipe app won't miss it.

DavidAbrams 14y ago

Until she wants to send the recipe to her friend. Or move it to some other app after the vendor goes defunct. Or print it. Apologists for the crippled user experience act as though a file system is some kind of arcane "nerdy" or "geeky" facility. It isn't. It's how people organize information. That's why we have file cabinets and recipe boxes. It's also how multiple applications can act on the same files. In iOS we have mobile, handheld Unix computers that are ironically cut off from the outside world on purpose. On those computers we have applications that can't interact with each other or each other's data. This is not progress.

jasonlotito 14y ago
> Until she wants to send the recipe to her friend. Or move it to some other app after the vendor goes defunct. Or print it. The problem with that is she'll complain about the application being at fault. And maybe it is. After all, sending a recipe to a friend should be easy. And exporting the recipe to some standard format should be available. And printing is something that can happen. None of those complaints can be levied against iOS. Of course, the flip side is also true: the nature of iOS and the App Store means the app developers really are limited by what Apple will allow them to do. I hate reading app reviews that complain about things that aren't the fault of the app, but rather Apple or another 3rd party. In essence, I see a damned if you do, damned if you don't approach.

moe 14y ago

The proverbial "average mom" outnumbers the people who even know what a filesystem is by orders of magnitude. This is slowly changing and in 2-3 generations everybody will know what a folder-based filesystem was because it'll be prominently listed on the wikipedia page about broken computing metaphors of the past.