I still think it's an awful idea to group content by type ("all photos are in the iPhoto app") rather then let the user choose how to group it.
Users usually put things together based on content, not type. They want to place that funny video in the same folder as the funny joke saved in .txt and that image of the cute cat. The document with a list of things to buy for the party along with the spreadsheet with the total costs.
And IF they one day decide they want to group by type, they do it. Abstracting the notion of files away is just removing options from the user, options that weren't even bugging them in the first place. I have yet to see someone having trouble understanding the concept of files and folders.
And don't even get me started on the fact that all applications will have to implement their own content manager...
I still think it's an awful idea to group content by type ("all photos are in the iPhoto app") rather then let the user choose how to group it.
Users usually put things together based on content, not type. They want to place that funny video in the same folder as the funny joke saved in .txt and that image of the cute cat. The document with a list of things to buy for the party along with the spreadsheet with the total costs.
And IF they one day decide they want to group by type, they do it. Abstracting the notion of files away is just removing options from the user, options that weren't even bugging them in the first place. I have yet to see someone having trouble understanding the concept of files and folders.
And don't even get me started on the fact that all applications will have to implement their own content manager...