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The Death of Folders?
saintlupus writes "There's an interesting article on Wired about the interface changes in Tiger being a precursor to the demise of the classic folder-browsing Finder." From the article: "Users type search queries more or less as they did pre-Tiger, but 'the quality, scope and presentation of the results are significantly better, so users get good benefits without having to change their behavior.'"
frog confirms it,
"The Finder has been dying for a long time," said frog creative director Cordell Ratzlaff.
You'd better took the red pill!
"Ooh, we're so cutting edge we're not going to use a capital letter at the start of our company's name." Pretentious twats. I bet they all have poncy rectangular tinted glasses and soul patches and ride around their offices on scooters as well.
You must think in Russian.
I don't know about you, but when I am looking for a specific website, I am more likely to type in the URL than to search for it in Google.
My point is that Spotlight/Google is fine when it comes to vague requests (I want teh funny Star Wars spoof!), but when you know exactly what you are looking for and exactly where it is, you don't want a big pile of options to choose from.
My other processor is big-endian.
Without mod points I am powerless to correct the unjust "Offtopic" that another has visited upon you. I shall do my best however to find someone bearing mod points along with a working sense of humor to set this to rights.
FOR I AM JUUUUUUUDGE FUUUUUURIOUS!
And yes, I'm Offtopic as well but honestly now, it's a stupid, stupid topic isn't it? The end of folders? Please! As another poster pointed out just north of this post Microsoft has been planning this for a long, long time. Newsflash here, Microsoft (As well as pretty much every other company in this industry) plans the end of a lot of things and not all of them happen. Probably most of them don't happen. Microsoft planned the demise of DOS for how long before it went away?
If it was going to happen in our lifetime. Nobody's going to get the user-pods to change their hard-won ideas overnight. This is a nothing to see, move along thread if ever there was one.
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