Comment by jimbokun
4 days ago
I think a lot of developers think like you, but most users of phones don't.
I don't think most people care enough to put time into organizing their photos, but would rather the phone or backend AI just find the photo they want by searching for it.
I'm not sure if most users even have a strong conception of "file" or really understand what data is physically on their phone vs "the cloud".
(The symmetry thing though probably does bother a lot of people regardless of their level of technical expertise.)
Well I’m a very technical person, and sorting photos into folders seems like a colossal waste of time to me, when I can also just search for a thing on the image, the place or time when or where it was taken, a person or animal on it; I could add it to an album, star it, add tags to it; that should be more than enough sorting facilities, I think.
Same. In fact, I don't organize much of anything that's digital, photos or files. I just use search, it's pretty good these days, and with OCR even better.
Just give me a big flag structure with robust search and I'm happy. Heck I don't even bother to organize or layout the apps on my home screen. quicker for me to search with spotlight than scroll around and find what I want.