It’s to sloppify the user and make us more suggestible, so we didn’t notice when google² moved our files to the cloud and started automatically editing our photos¹ and scanning everything for plagarism-bot³ to get free content. Its to make you used instead of user.

Everything about the modern ux kind of is.

¹not to influence us for political or advertising reasons. Lol! Dont be silly. Just, you know, for reasons. A little touch up. Maybe merging two pics so you can be in the picture with your friends. Maybe turn this night shot to golden hour. Fix the moon. Change the stars. Change that billboard in the corner. You know; little things.

²google, apple, and Microsoft all do this to some extent. Present tense. Happened last year.

³totally not anything else. Totally separate from our voluntary collaboration and commercial contracts with intelligence agencies.

thank Steve "blow"Jobs for this. He made consumers accept and swallow down using itunes to manage where their files went with the ipod, and now nothing makes sense.

In the end, only being a stupid hippie could save us from him, although not before stealing livers that could have actually saved other people’s lives with his private jet.

Just use a decent file browser and sort by “recently modified” … Like how much easier can it be made?

Yeah, I’ve had iOS friends tell me that I didn’t send images “as photos” because it didn’t show up in their photos app when they download it, and that they needed me to “send it as a photo instead of a file”. I’m like my brother in Christ, it’s a jpeg, just figure out where you downloaded it to. Apparently it’s confusing getting image files that weren’t automatically imported into the gallery into the gallery, because it’s typically seamless or something. So when they download a jpeg a certain way instead of having it sent on iMessage they get lost.

I’ve also had friends on iOS tell me that iPhones can’t open zip files, and I’m like surely that’s not true.

I mean I relate to it on android, God forbid you want to find and edit a config file

And between the iPhone’s influence and the general disregard of Java for the local filesystem, we got… whatever the fuck this is.

Also google. To a lesser extent windows.

That’s the wildest thing to me. All file interactions have to be done via apps. There’s no built-in file manager or terminal to do it. And then, yeah, no apps can be given privileges for actually managing all files. Not least, because users don’t actually have full permissions for accessing their phone.