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by vlovich123 273 days ago
I'd buy this except we have existence proof of how Apple solved this by instead making .app folders act special in the UI and having an /Applications folder you drag applications into.

A much more elegant solution and I think the criticism stands correct; Microsoft Research just didn't realize how to solve the problem and everything else is justification after-the-fact.
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Ntrails 272 days ago
I'm not a mac guy - but I was playing some sts and for some reason my _data_ was embedded inside an Application which is kind of a package of files and I have to "unzip it" from a context menu to see the save games (but everything still functions the same).

That is, imo, awful. I'm not sold they've got everything right

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vlovich123 272 days ago
That is very weird and suggests the App developer made a weird choice and ignore the HIG. Not a problem with the approach IMHO.
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mixmastamyk 273 days ago
I remember when you’d look in that folder in old versions of Windows, explorer would actually tell you, “Hey, don’t look in here!”

This was because they hadn’t yet implemented security. (Was probably Win98 or so.)

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