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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
Can someone tell me why a file system would be difficult to use?
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It isn't difficult, but the more volumes or configurations thereof, the more minor complications crop up, the more
relatively difficult it is to navigate both as a user and as a developer (who have to anticipate all kinds of different configs and make their programs cope with them all -- something that has been done on PCs without issue since the beginning of the age -- but sometimes clumsily). The truth is there's a fever sweeping the mobilists to simplify. That's why copy/paste was so often lagging in adoption in the new platforms. It's why actual, physically depressed buttons, and even dedicated capacitive buttons have been more and more phased out.
Some small good came from the copy/paste pressure, as contextual solutions reduced the need to use it, and thankfully, platforms finally relented and let you have both copy/paste and contextual solutions, rather than forcing the incomplete solution on all (after "all" whined and moaned about it for years). Fewer moving parts (buttons) mean less hardware failure, though the minorness of that bonus can't be overstated - I used my m500 for 4+ years with no button failure, my TX for the same, no button failure, my TP2 (full 5 line qwerty) for over 3 years now, no button failure -- if you have good quality control, you can make buttons just fine, and if you don't have good quality control, a lack of buttons won't keep your device from falling apart or burning up.
The real benefit of simplification is a sleeker, chicer
appearance of the UX/UI or hardware itself. For a while we wanted thinner devices so they'd be more pocketable, but then we just became obsessed with thin, and tossed all manner of functionality to achieve it. We are in a
function follows form era, and there is currently no OS bucking that trend, though Android had all the way through 2.3.7. Some manufacturers like Asus buck the trend, but even they aren't going to twist el Goog's arm on a project like this one.