Quietly, Apple get rid of computer UI cruft

[skington]

Would you notice it if was gone? And would you care?

The important thing about the new Apple iPad is not that you suddenly have a large, glorified iPod Touch. No, the important thing is that, quietly, Apple is getting rid of user interface cruft that we don’t need any more.

Margaret’s didn’t care; why should you?

My late mother came to

Comments

[ralphmelton]

iWork does in fact save all the time. And it even saves the undo stack, so if you have to switch apps and come back, you haven't lost the ability to undo.

[autopope]

According to a source of mine at Apple, the filesystem is partially exposed to users.

Rather: there's a shared folder to which the iApps have access, and this is synced with the desktop machine (I don't know how -- whether via iTunes or via AFP or whatever).

I think that saving will probably, as you say, be implicit -- but the folder is necessary to allow users to keep multiple documents organized. The application context still applies to file management, though.