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Re:Computer Files Are Going Extinct by Animats on Sunday October 13, 2019 @05:34PM (#21243226)
The problem is that all the new ways of doing things involve being a slave of some ecosystem that doesn't play well with other ecosystems. If Instagram, Snapchat, Dropbox, Slack, and Google Drive all interoperated properly, this wouldn't be a big deal.
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Re:Computer Files Are Going Extinct by TeMPOraL on Sunday October 13, 2019 @07:38PM (#21244076)
And if you wanted them to interoperate properly... you'd essentially be reinventing a file system.

The problem is all these services try to control as much as they can. So interoperability becomes whatever contracts on the use of APIs they can sign with each other. You as a user have nothing to say.

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Re:Computer Files Are Going Extinct by saghm on Sunday October 13, 2019 @06:13PM (#21243520)
I'm guessing there's a decent chance that the students are already using an email provider that ties them to an ecosystem (which may already have a service geared towards sharing files!)
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