I had an iPhone back when the 3Gs was the newest phone, then an iPod touch 4g after that. None of them had a file explorer while my android phone from the time did. I didn't know they had added one until recently when I saw it on my roommate's phone. So they probably didn't know iOS had one

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You’re referring to some ancient history at this point. iPhones may look like they always have, but they’ve come a long way over the years.

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, I understand. It does make sense if you think about the demographic that usually uses iPhones vs Androids, I'd be willing to bet 80% of iPhones/iPods (do they even still make the iPod touch?) have only ever opened that app mistakenly haha.

Not trying to start a flame war or anything, just most iPhone users I know would pretty much never need to use the file explorer.

[–] SqueakyBeaver@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think they discontinued the iPod a few years ago

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

RIP to a legend.

[–] sjmarf@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, the average iPhone user probably doesn’t use Files at all. Photos stores all of your photos and videos, so it’s really just PDFs that go in there for me. And a lot people don’t ever download PDFs anyways, since you can view them directly in a browser.

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That isn’t a negative though. You’re saying that it auto sorts downloaded content well enough that the user doesn’t even have to be aware of how to access the file manager to still use the phone effectively. That isn’t a flaw, it’s a feature.

For anyone who does have a baseline level of proficiency, the file manager is functional, and familiar. I use it to pass torrents to my server all the time.

With a terminal and a file manager on iOS, I don’t run into a single thing I need to do that I can’t.

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

That isn’t a negative though.

We aren't saying that they're flaws. Read my earlier comment, I'm just making observations. Nothing wrong with not needing to use an app.