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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. Haven't met a person yet who I could honestly say would be confused, assuming they were labeled intuitively ("extsd" and such isn't intuitive - "Onboard", "SDCard", and "USB" would be far better volume names) and maybe briefly covered on the almost inevitable quick start leaflet, by being able to access files on removable media.
As for the, according to Google, confusion about where to access data (because most users, even the elderly, are able to figure out if they want their data on external cards/drives, and there's no need for app installation to happen on anything other than the internal storage space) if there's multiple possibilities, just have apps write an appname.dat (or whatever extension, as long as the app name is there for easy identification!) with the metadata needed on that drive/card (rescanning at intervals to check for differences, just like they would if the data were onboard), same way Windows creates a desktop.ini & thumbs.db anywhere it happens to need them...
Sadly, Google either honestly believe their users are blithering idiots or are (quite believably, given their past statements) cynically attempting to keep people on the cloud in order to blur the distinction between local and online (never a good thing).