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Cynical take: it puts Google Drive on a level playing-field with local storage (by making the local storage experience awful).
by david_allison 2y ago
Cynical take: it puts Google Drive on a level playing-field with local storage (by making the local storage experience awful).
- NotPractical 2y agoYou're nearly correct, actually. In addition to security, SAF was supposed to provide a consistent interface to access files from various sources, including network sources, not just the local filesystem. Unfortunately the implementation just kind of sucks.
- somat 2y agoThat sounds right, I would have implemented google drive as a filesystem driver, but I am not google so what do I know.