How does iCloud Drive work?

[Small White Car]

And yes, I am saying that no ideas tend to be taken forward, fairly or unfairly, from projects that are considered to be complete disasters.

It's already happened.

'Tags' in Mavericks is definitely a derivative of how keywords work in Final Cut Pro X. It's exactly the kind of thing I was taking about.

So either you're wrong about ideas not being taken from it or Apple doesn't consider FCPX a disaster.

I mean, it just wasn't. It was specifically widely criticised for having an awful file management system that was completely unusable in practice and was widely mocked.

I'm surprised to read this because I really don't remember this at all. Bear in mind I'm specifically talking about features that could be useful to Finder. Perhaps you're taking about the ways in which FCPX managed media files behind the scenes? That's not at all what I'm referring to. I'm talking about the things one could do within the interface itself.

So yes, I know people complained that you could't take projects off-line while working. But that's not something you'd need in Finder. Turning files 'off' to the OS isn't really a feature I'd expect an OS to gain.

I'm specifically referring here to how keywords worked (which is how Tags work now) and how smart collections and being able to apply search terms to certain parts of a file (as opposed to the entire thing). Those are the kind of things I'm expecting to migrate over to Finder and OS X. And given that they've already started, with Tags, I don't think it's far-fetched to say they'll continue.

 

[bushido]

I don't think Apple will introduce a Cloud Drive app which organizes your cloud stuff in to folders and such. Yosemite still has Finder functionality but I think that both Apple and Microsoft are moving away from it because there are a lot of incredibly stupid people out there in the public who will never be able to grasp anything more complicated than "this is the app with my pictures!!!111". Computer filesystems with folders and directories just don't work out well for those people, they end up deleting something important on accident.

Your average Mac user is a bit smarter than that and can work with Finder just fine, but most (not all, but most) iPhone owners don't own macs and don't have much experience with computers. And these people cost Apple a fortune when they call AppleCare to find pictures of their grandkids.

i experience the opposite with noobs all the time like my mum asking me how to get her picture folders on the iphone or my uncle asking me how he can save his contacts in excel files for a backup. noobs DO wanna know where its saved cuz they dont understand the technically behind it and how contacts can "just be" in the cloud (whats even a cliud they may ask). give them a finder with folders called "music" "videos" and "images" and they will know what to do and how to delete or move something but telling them they can use multiple apps to open those files without knowing where its located raises huge question marks in their mind for example my sister writes something in pages but also needs and excel sheet to go along with it. shes spending hours googling to figure out how to save those two files at the same location on her ipad. older people grew up with a file system so ironically they have more problems adapting to apples automatical way of handling files in the background. i can already see my aunt calling me in panic cuz she "deleted" a file within an app not realizing itll be deleted from everywhere and not just within this one particuarly app.


btw i hate the way apple handles it too. i rather have a file system with folders like "documents" and subfolders where i can place different kind of files and then get asked what app i want to use to open it and not the other way around where i keep flipping between apps just to open something