<story><title>My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things an iPhone still can&apos;t do</title><url>https://raymii.org/s/blog/My_24_year_old_HP_Jornada_can_do_things_your_modern_iPhone_still_cant_do.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GenericDev</author><text>Dang. This is the future I wanted to see for mobile devices.&lt;p&gt;Really bummed where we&amp;#x27;re at right now in the mobile ecosystem. It&amp;#x27;s crazy to me that even now iOS&amp;#x2F;Android still obscure your directories from you, and navigating them is treated as something to hide from the users despite being an integral part of the operating system.&lt;p&gt;Really wild how these companies leaned into disrespecting their users. A lot of people might say &amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s to help the users and remove touch points they don&amp;#x27;t care about&amp;quot;, but the truth is that in making these decisions they have trained users to ignore these mental models and completely hidden or removed the opportunity to normalize these aspects of the operating systems and the device.&lt;p&gt;Really wish it wasn&amp;#x27;t this way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Vrondi</author><text>My android devices have all come with basic file system browsers, but even better, I can choose from a plethora of full featured apps for full file system access. This is one of the issues that has kept me away from iphone, though.</text></comment>
<story><title>My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things an iPhone still can&apos;t do</title><url>https://raymii.org/s/blog/My_24_year_old_HP_Jornada_can_do_things_your_modern_iPhone_still_cant_do.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GenericDev</author><text>Dang. This is the future I wanted to see for mobile devices.&lt;p&gt;Really bummed where we&amp;#x27;re at right now in the mobile ecosystem. It&amp;#x27;s crazy to me that even now iOS&amp;#x2F;Android still obscure your directories from you, and navigating them is treated as something to hide from the users despite being an integral part of the operating system.&lt;p&gt;Really wild how these companies leaned into disrespecting their users. A lot of people might say &amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s to help the users and remove touch points they don&amp;#x27;t care about&amp;quot;, but the truth is that in making these decisions they have trained users to ignore these mental models and completely hidden or removed the opportunity to normalize these aspects of the operating systems and the device.&lt;p&gt;Really wish it wasn&amp;#x27;t this way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acheron</author><text>The difficulty I had just copying things from one phone to another recently was ridiculous. You’re right, this should be a basic function. I have files I’ve copied from computer to computer that were originally from the late 80s.</text></comment>