These systems always strike me as a failure of the file system and desktop metaphor.
_The computer_ was intended to be the system you stored documents in, with paths to link between them, and any number of applications to do any number of things with them. Extended attributes are available for metadata. There’s not really any reason why things like Dropbox and iCloud couldn’t extend this to the Internet.
But it somehow became too unwieldy to really work this way (for me, too - I’m not arguing that it’s a good way to do things with the systems we really have). It’s a shame.
_The computer_ was intended to be the system you stored documents in, with paths to link between them, and any number of applications to do any number of things with them. Extended attributes are available for metadata. There’s not really any reason why things like Dropbox and iCloud couldn’t extend this to the Internet.
But it somehow became too unwieldy to really work this way (for me, too - I’m not arguing that it’s a good way to do things with the systems we really have). It’s a shame.