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1. gizajob · 1791037920 · focus · HN ↗

   > The concept of "filesystem" is an increasingly weak concept.

   Yeah because Apple has broken that idea over and over and over. The anti-unix unix.

   1. someonebaggy · 1791039017 · focus · HN ↗

      It's nothing to do with evil old Apple and everything to do with phones being hard to type on, and search becoming better.

      1. gizajob · 1791039691 · focus · HN ↗

         iPhoto. iTunes. iCloud. iMovie. Notes.

         None use the file system in anything like the way their unix underpinning would have files be understood or organised for users. Hard to even know where your files are without asking the app to deal with them one by one. Predated phones and even Spotlight doesn’t do a good job of showing/knowing where your files are.

         1. someonebaggy · 1791039883 · focus · HN ↗

            And why should they? I don't know where my browser cache is either. Or my rows in my sqlite database. Or the system clock configuration. Actually I do know: They're stored on the hard drive.

            Files aren't physical.

            1. bguebert · 1791162127 · focus · HN ↗

               It's important to know so they can own their own photos and not like feel like they can't cancel a cloud hosting service that keeps increasing the cost because they will lose them all.

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