thank Steve "blow"Jobs for this. He made consumers accept and swallow down using itunes to manage where their files went with the ipod, and now nothing makes sense.

In the end, only being a stupid hippie could save us from him, although not before stealing livers that could have actually saved other people's lives with his private jet.

It's to sloppify the user and make us more suggestible, so we didn't notice when google² moved our files to the cloud and started automatically editing our photos¹ and scanning everything for plagarism-bot³ to get free content. Its to make you used instead of user.

Everything about the modern ux kind of is.

¹not to influence us for political or advertising reasons. Lol! Dont be silly. Just, you know, for reasons. A little touch up. Maybe merging two pics so you can be in the picture with your friends. Maybe turn this night shot to golden hour. Fix the moon. Change the stars. Change that billboard in the corner. You know; little things.

²google, apple, and Microsoft all do this to some extent. Present tense. Happened last year.

³totally not anything else. Totally separate from our voluntary collaboration and commercial contracts with intelligence agencies.

Just use a decent file browser and sort by "recently modified" ... Like how much easier can it be made?

And between the iPhone's influence and the general disregard of Java for the local filesystem, we got... whatever the fuck this is.

I mean I relate to it on android, God forbid you want to find and edit a config file

Also google. To a lesser extent windows.