After decades of messy, thoughtless design choices, corporations are using artificial intelligence to sell basic usability back to consumers

    • deweydecibel@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Not with the right file manager. That’s the whole point: on iOS, you don’t have any options. On Android, the file system is available, and you can use non-default tools for it.

      The problem is people utterly refusing to think outside the defaults.

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        1 year ago

        Is there anything even wrong with the default Google file manager? It works pretty well from my experience

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          1 year ago

          Lack of support for SMB is about the only thing missing that I care about from it. There is an add-on app Google released years back for it, but they haven’t updated it in years and it was broken the last time I tried to use it.

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      Not really. The biggest problem I have with file management on android is from crossplatform apps that assume the user is on iOS. E.g. The patreon app saves every image as “patreon image.png” in the downloads folder rather than keeping the uploader’s filename or letting me specify where I want it, and the bluesky app saves everything to my “photo reel” (i.e the DCIM folder). Both things that don’t happen if I open them from a browser.

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      1 year ago

      As well as the complete mess made by having updates handled by manufacturers. So if they can’t be arsed, you get no updates. Wonderful.

      And I’ve no idea why each of them needs to fuck with the settings menus so much. Google “how to change such-and-such on Android”, and unless you bought a really popular flagship model you’ll be there all day trying to find if it’s even in your version or not.