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I don't think so? The files and folders are still there on Chromebooks and Android smartphones, and there is even a stock file manager app, but I find it very r
by theamk 3y ago
I don't think so? The files and folders are still there on Chromebooks and Android smartphones, and there is even a stock file manager app, but I find it very rarely used. And individual apps have been dying for many years already with everything moving to the web - for example I have only 3 apps I use daily (web browser, mail client, terminal), and many people only use the browser.
This leaves only general "browsing", that could be described as:
- There is a virtual document which can be big or small
- This document may consist of text, images or videos
- At any given time, a portion of the document is displayed on the screen. Navigation commands (keyboard, mouse, special hardware, gestures, etc...) could be used to choose which portion of the document is shown.
- Some parts of document can be interacted with (using mouse, or light pen or fingers): then some action happens or a different document is shown
This model has been unchanged for at least 50 years - first Smalltalks worked like that, and today's browsers work the same. Sure, there are more colors and images are much higher quality, but the essential interactions are the same.
So I am not sure what would exactly LLMs bring to that picture.. sure the search bar may get replaced by a natural-language query, but that won't need the new OS, it's just an incremental improvement of existing status quo.