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>> "Does anyone benefit from this?" Yes, users. Presumably, in Apple's view, the filesystem is a poor metaphor for users. Users think of their files as "in iTu
by randall 14y ago
>> "Does anyone benefit from this?"
Yes, users. Presumably, in Apple's view, the filesystem is a poor metaphor for users. Users think of their files as "in iTunes" or the like. Removing the filesystem separates concerns by requiring more strict ways of passing files around.
>> "each app must copy every file it needs access to"
>> "Each and every developer must reinvent the file system"
These points are fair criticisms, but to claim blankly, "Apple needs to make a full U-turn on this" seems a bit much. I think there are a lot of potential fixes for this issue, and even though the author dismisses Dropbox, it seems like an obvious potential solution. There are other OS-level potentials though, like web intents, etc.
The claims, however, seem like a one-sided argument which fails to understand Apple's line of reasoning whatsoever.
- anotherbadlogin 14y agoHow on earth is Dropbox a workaround for this? You want to round-trip potentially massive files through a third-party Internet server over a cellular connection? And that's assuming you HAVE a connection. And that you're not in another country paying out the ass for data. Why the hell should we accept that rip-off without calling Apple out on it? Apple loves to live in its own world where Apple tells users how those users THINK, and where it pretends never to have heard of the valid criticisms leveled at it year after year. Nobody fears file systems. That's like saying we fear tables of contents or outlines. And hey, if you don't "get" files, then don't launch the file browser! People excusing hobbled products always pretend not to understand OPTIONS. Nobody is proposing that Apple turn the home screen into a directory tree. By crippling iOS and its SDK, Apple has squandered much of the potential of their handheld Unix computers. This guy's article identifies one of the worst offenses.
- anigbrowl 14y agoIt became such a pain in the ass for audio users that a new inter-app standard, AudioBus, was given the greenlight by Apple after accumulating signups from thousands of musicians who wanted to push audio & MIDI data between apps.
- coldtea 14y ago>It became such a pain in the ass for audio users that a new inter-app standard, AudioBus, was given the greenlight by Apple after accumulating signups from thousands of musicians who wanted to push audio & MIDI data between apps. AudioBus doesn't have anything to do with sharing files on some folder. It's about passing audio and midi information around, which is different. You can do that, and still have every application perfectly isolated and deletable at will.
- anigbrowl 14y agoIt arose partly because people were finding it such a hassle to move audio by saving it one app and opening it in another.
- coldtea 14y agoNo, it arose because "saving audio in one and opening in another" is not how you work with sequences, plugins and effects in real time. You have to stream music and control data from one to another. It doesn't solve the "copy/paste audio from app to app" problem, it solves something totally different. Obviously this is a problem that doesn't exist for most file types that don't have to be passed in real time between many apps to be manipulated at once (i.e almost all of them).