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0 points0xCMP4y ago0 comments

For storing bytes at a path on disk? Sure, but it's low level abstraction. Something which only developers and sys-admins should be concerned with.

Users would much rather work with logical items. A "photo" which includes metadata, photo files, photo edits, ratings, face/object detections, and etc. as a single "thing". A tweet thread. A blog post on Medium or in WordPress. A Google Doc or Sheet.

The question is how do you provide that seamless "anywhere, anytime" experience while keeping that data as local to the device as possible? Files by themselves just can't solve that. There needs to be a protocol, a data format, and mobile OS support.

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brabel4y ago

You're basically describing Microsoft OLE[1].

There was also the open-source alternative, OpenDoc[2] that never got anywhere... this has been tried and just doesn't work.

The only thing that seems to work is media-types on the Internet... with the browser as the universal viewer/processor... but as it is currently, it's hard to make it better than what we have.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Linking_and_Embedding

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc

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