Apple’s iOS devices are treating files like historical artifacts that users should be protected from while popularity surges for Dropbox’s file sync service.
Discuss…
Apple’s iOS devices are treating files like historical artifacts that users should be protected from while popularity surges for Dropbox’s file sync service.
Discuss…
Someone was just complaining to me that the iPad handles files poorly. You’d think they’d put more of a focus on files/hierarchy since they’re trying to push this as a business device.
It’s probably not a huge priority for them since they can’t directly make money off of it.
Apple is once again leading the development in their way, and I think they are doing the right thing here. Files and folders have been with us for a very long time, and we are as always afraid of getting rid of what we are used to.
But the future is in the cloud, and we don’t really need that kind of hierachy there.
Dropbox is a modern way of managing old standards, and that’s a great thing that makes the step to cloud computing smaller.
Well played Apple, well played Dropbox!
That’s precisely why I use a BlackBerry.
I’ve been thinking a lot about this. iOS eliminates the concept of files and instead goes toward the concept of “states” for information.
Dropbox to me is a halfway point between files and states as it decentralizes what files are.
I hope Lion can help move us away from the concept of “files” personally. Files as atomic entities are annoying and seem antiquated.