I dont know how a file manager for a system like linux for normal user is a failure. Has there been a survey? How many of the people who use cell phones these days also use a computer? Do they not have a file explorer of some kind on their windows/mac computers? On a cell phone like nokia 1100 it made sense to not have a file manager, but a 64GB N9 (or some a random meego tablet)? File manager is very very very important thing. Why should a document reader manage all my docs? Why should a pdf reader manage all my pdf files, why should a media player manage all the audio/video for me? Is the notion to "browse" your device all dead in these times? Cant I just pick up my 64gb device with the intention of seeing what I have stored in all these months of it in my ownership? In this scenerio I am picking up the device not to open the doc app to check what docs are their, i'm not opening the pdf viewer to see what pdfs are their, and not launching the media player to see what songs are their. I'm picking up my device to "browse" through the great piece of hardware that is enormously capable, and I want to browse my folders, something I have created in my usage of the device, just the way i wanted, just the names that I wanted to give the directories I created. I may find a doc that I wanted to read, I may find a song that I wanted to listen, or a vid that I wanted to watch, or a pdf book that I was half way through, I dont know right now, but as I look I may say "oh yes I was looking at this, lets read that page again or what comes next to it". I may have even wanted to just have a special location where I have saved a group of docs that are so important to me. File manager is a must. I have not used iphone, but seems like if ios plateform is giving ppl this idea that we should not have a file manager on meego, this is going to be pretty foolish of us. I dont agree that dropping stuff like this from ios was the reason of its success.
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