If any app grants the user any access at all to the filesystem, it is rejected out of hand.
And indeed, that would, for me, be a major game-breaker.
One of the first things I installed on my Androids (phone and tab) was a decent file explorer/manager.
Wenda.
Hi there
So what's wrong with the standard Windows file explorer (desktop version).
Seems to me if people are rejecting Windows 8 because they don't like the apps in the store then they shouldn't even be THINKING of buying a laptop or desktop computer but stick to tablets and phones.
I would honestly say that 99.9% of SERIOUS Desktop users don't care two Monkeys about any of the apps in the store......
<Edited to reduce size of my post/avoid excessive quoting.>
Cheers
jimbo
Jimbo,
I appreciate the points you've just made regarding the Windows interface, and
by-and-large I agree with you, which is why I'm curious as to why you used a quote
of mine to reinforce them, as it that you are in disagreement with me and/or my
comment.
Yes, I'm a serious user and almost always have multiple windows open, and multiple
tabs in my browsers. I, too, dislike the 'immersive' IE intensely, and the only 'apps'
that I do use are, funnily enough, Bing and the weather, on an i7.
But that is
very infrequently, the rest of the time I'm in 100% desktop mode. I have little use
for the Metro side of things except as a program launcher.
My comment was addressed to XweApoN , who was referring to restrictions on access to
the file-system on Android devices, not Windows, and mentioned that he'd installed
a file manager which did not have those restrictions. I merely agreed with him and
said that I'd done the same. I wasn't even thinking about the Windows store or apps
when I made the post.
I'm not having a go at you, Jimbo, and quite possibly I've misread or misunderstood
the connection. If so, I apologise, but again, I essentially agree with your points, not
disagree, so don't see the connection between my comment and yours.
Wenda.