Comments on: Good Consumer Apps Don’t Expose the Filesystem http://blog.phanfare.com/2008/04/good-consumer-apps-dont-expose-the-filesystem/ Phantastic thoughts from Phanfare, the best online photo and video sharing service in the universe. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:20:56 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: NEUROTIN information. » NEUROTIN.US http://blog.phanfare.com/2008/04/good-consumer-apps-dont-expose-the-filesystem/comment-page-1/#comment-55772 NEUROTIN information. » NEUROTIN.US Thu, 29 May 2008 02:41:14 +0000 http://blog.phanfare.com/2008/04/good-consumer-apps-dont-expose-the-filesystem/#comment-55772 [...] on Gmail? The computer filesystem is an engineering concept that has no place in consumer apps.read more | digg [...] [...] on Gmail? The computer filesystem is an engineering concept that has no place in consumer apps.read more | digg [...]

]]> By: stefan http://blog.phanfare.com/2008/04/good-consumer-apps-dont-expose-the-filesystem/comment-page-1/#comment-53055 stefan Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:56:31 +0000 http://blog.phanfare.com/2008/04/good-consumer-apps-dont-expose-the-filesystem/#comment-53055 One thing I learned at PMA this year is that people understand files. They're comfortable with files. Files feel like tangible things to them. Entries in some "cloud" somewhere are not nearly as comforting. People don't trust online services with their precious files, especially photos. If you hide where the photo files are, the user feels like the file is "gone" into some "black hole" and he/she has lost control of it. Furthermore, people like to use their photo files in lots of ways, in lots of applications, not just yours. They want to make copies of the photo files, back up the photo files, use the photo files as "profile photos" in Facebook, etc etc. One thing I learned at PMA this year is that people understand files. They’re comfortable with files. Files feel like tangible things to them. Entries in some “cloud” somewhere are not nearly as comforting. People don’t trust online services with their precious files, especially photos. If you hide where the photo files are, the user feels like the file is “gone” into some “black hole” and he/she has lost control of it.

Furthermore, people like to use their photo files in lots of ways, in lots of applications, not just yours. They want to make copies of the photo files, back up the photo files, use the photo files as “profile photos” in Facebook, etc etc.

]]> By: Good Consumer Apps Don’t Expose The Filesystem | brodericjonas http://blog.phanfare.com/2008/04/good-consumer-apps-dont-expose-the-filesystem/comment-page-1/#comment-51983 Good Consumer Apps Don’t Expose The Filesystem | brodericjonas Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:24:54 +0000 http://blog.phanfare.com/2008/04/good-consumer-apps-dont-expose-the-filesystem/#comment-51983 [...] read more [...] [...] read more [...]

]]> By: Tax » Good Consumer Apps Don’t Expose the Filesystem http://blog.phanfare.com/2008/04/good-consumer-apps-dont-expose-the-filesystem/comment-page-1/#comment-51939 Tax » Good Consumer Apps Don’t Expose the Filesystem Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:31:22 +0000 http://blog.phanfare.com/2008/04/good-consumer-apps-dont-expose-the-filesystem/#comment-51939 [...] Andrew Erlichson wrote an interesting post today on Good Consumer Apps Don’t Expose the FilesystemHere’s a quick excerptWhat about backing up your tax forms form TurboTax? Just use the web version! Any service that promises to sync your hard drive to the cloud is a waste of time. But wait you say. How do I backup all my personal files that I create with … [...]

]]> By: Good Consumer Apps Don’t Expose the Filesystem http://blog.phanfare.com/2008/04/good-consumer-apps-dont-expose-the-filesystem/comment-page-1/#comment-51938 Good Consumer Apps Don’t Expose the Filesystem Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:22:42 +0000 http://blog.phanfare.com/2008/04/good-consumer-apps-dont-expose-the-filesystem/#comment-51938 [...] Picture of beauty girl 9x wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThe Blackberry and iPhone are both great consumer devices and neither one shows you the file system. The standard Windows PC shows you the file system and PCs are notoriously difficult for consumers to keep running and manage. … [...] [...] Picture of beauty girl 9x wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThe Blackberry and iPhone are both great consumer devices and neither one shows you the file system. The standard Windows PC shows you the file system and PCs are notoriously difficult for consumers to keep running and manage. … [...]

]]> By: Good Consumer Apps Don’t Expose The Filesystem | bastienjermaine http://blog.phanfare.com/2008/04/good-consumer-apps-dont-expose-the-filesystem/comment-page-1/#comment-51934 Good Consumer Apps Don’t Expose The Filesystem | bastienjermaine Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:08:27 +0000 http://blog.phanfare.com/2008/04/good-consumer-apps-dont-expose-the-filesystem/#comment-51934 [...] read more [...] [...] read more [...]

]]> By: Pink iPhone » Good Consumer Apps Don’t Expose the Filesystem http://blog.phanfare.com/2008/04/good-consumer-apps-dont-expose-the-filesystem/comment-page-1/#comment-51931 Pink iPhone » Good Consumer Apps Don’t Expose the Filesystem Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:52:32 +0000 http://blog.phanfare.com/2008/04/good-consumer-apps-dont-expose-the-filesystem/#comment-51931 [...] Probably Biggest Apple iPhone community wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt Consumer apps are moving to the cloud. No news there, we all know it. One unifying characteristic of well designed cloud-based applications is that they don’t expose the file system to the user. Do you think about the file system on Gmail? What about when you are using Google Docs? The computer filesystem is an engineering concept, designed by the geeks who created computers. It has nearly no useful purpose in mainstream computing. Apps that expose the filesystem are uniformly focused on the [...] [...] Probably Biggest Apple iPhone community wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt Consumer apps are moving to the cloud. No news there, we all know it. One unifying characteristic of well designed cloud-based applications is that they don’t expose the file system to the user. Do you think about the file system on Gmail? What about when you are using Google Docs? The computer filesystem is an engineering concept, designed by the geeks who created computers. It has nearly no useful purpose in mainstream computing. Apps that expose the filesystem are uniformly focused on the [...]

]]> By: J2me Blog » Blog Archiv » Good Consumer Apps Don’t Expose the Filesystem http://blog.phanfare.com/2008/04/good-consumer-apps-dont-expose-the-filesystem/comment-page-1/#comment-51930 J2me Blog » Blog Archiv » Good Consumer Apps Don’t Expose the Filesystem Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:51:29 +0000 http://blog.phanfare.com/2008/04/good-consumer-apps-dont-expose-the-filesystem/#comment-51930 [...] (via Phanfare Blog: Andrew Erlichson) [...] [...] (via Phanfare Blog: Andrew Erlichson) [...]

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