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That’s all very nice but a filesystem needs to be able to deal with every type of file on the planet. Which means you can’t automatically detect the contents.

And really, a lot of users don’t want an interface that doesn’t allow them to do what they want just because someone else just dumps all their files on the desktop.

Apple tried this on iCloud and had to go back. Because, while it makes for nice presentation and usability, there’s a lot of users that it can’t cater for.




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