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The user experience gleans a lot of simplicity by abstracting hiding the filesystem. If you can't monkey with files, you can only break things programmatically.

It's definitely different, and frustrating for superusers, but I think it will be perfect for the majority of the population.



I'm sorry but you can both allow files to be moved (photo, music, movies, documents) and abstract the file system.

When I move the photos from my camera to my computer, I don't have to deal with the file system at any moment.


Interesting choice of example, as loading photos from a camera is something the iPad can do without third-party software.


Exactly

I dig the ipad allot, but Itunes and the design imperative behind it (it organizes my files, not me) never worked for me, it never worked for my music, it wont work for documents.


Superusers that want to write a document and put it on another computer?




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