I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK

Re:I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK by dingaling on Monday April 06, 2026 @12:33PM (#47663164)

I can't blame them. We've been force-upgraded to Windows 11 at work and that OS and its apps do their upmost to obscure where files are located.

I've frequently saved on OneDrive instead of locally, by accident, and then been perplexed when I try to reopen the file later.

And I've been using filesystems for 35+ years, so I feel sympathy for those who don't understand the abstraction. At this point Android is more transparent about its files.

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Re:I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK by array_key_first on Monday April 06, 2026 @05:18PM (#47667285)

> We've been force-upgraded to Windows 11 at work and that OS and its apps do their upmost to obscure where files are located.

That's because there's research that users don't understand filesystems. So then stupid companies who make bad decisions like Microsoft and Apple decide that that means they should pretend filesystems don't exist.

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Re:I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK by account42 on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @07:20AM (#47688676)

More like Microsoft has incentives to push people towards their cloud storage. If there were studies involved in these changes they are just excuses for things that were already decided without them.

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