karavite said:
I mean, is the day almost here where I can simply dump all my files in my HD and never waste a minute organizing folders and sub folders again?
I think the Spotlight stuff is definitely going to be a big deal, especially for people who are willing to change their organizational habits or to spend a little bit of time exploring how well this will work for them. As Fryke said, it probably won't mean you won't want to organize at ALL, but I think users are going to be able to forget, for the most part, about how things are actually structured on disk, like in iPhoto and iTunes.
I'd definitely be surprised if this is what MS has in mind for their little WinFS thing, though now that they're getting a taste of what Apple's doing, well, they DO still have a couple of years to go before Longhorn.
One thing that disappointed me just a tad is that the "search-in-file" capabilities definitely aren't as all-encompassing as I'd thought. There's definitely a limited set of file-formats that it will work with (10 listed in the initial docs), and for more formats to be supported, supposedly
someone (Apple, most likely?) will need to extend Spotlight.
This worries me a little, because Apple hasn't had a great track-record of a lot of these things. iSync and mobile devices jumps out at me - I *still* can't completely take advantage of my Nokia 3650 phone (or the majority of Series 60 phones) nearly a year after I bought it, and I'm completely at Apple's mercy for updates and support. Same thing for iPhoto and camera support, though I haven't personally had any problems in that area yet. I suppose if I was seeing, say, monthly updates from Apple providing new/updated device support (come on, Nokia 6600 support is extremely simple thing versus other Series 60 phones!) I guess I'd feel a bit more comfortable, but I'm not.
