How will iCloud work across the Affinity Suite?

[KipV]

A question just occurred to me when thinking about how iCloud will work with the suite. Affinity shares the same file format across all the apps right? So in other words I will be able to open my Affinity Designer files in Affinity Photo? If that is the case then how does sandboxed iCloud storage work? If I save one of my Affinity Designer files in the iCloud sandbox then when I go to Affinity Photo it won't be in the Affinity Photo sandbox.

[Ben]

We already use common sand boxing to pass documents between our apps. Hopefully this will also work for iCloud, but we will have to look into it.

[Andy Somerfield]

The apps will share the same "ubiquity container(s)" - to use Apple parlance.

 

In other words, it will all just work :)

 

AndyS

[Ben]

That's the words I was looking for. ;)

[KipV]

Ok, that's good to know.

[KipV]

The single file technique gets more interesting the more I think about it. When I was in school we would set up a folder hierarchy for a project where you would have a InDesign file in the first folder and then would have to make folders inside that folder for photos, drawings, fonts, etc. If everything is self contained the folder hierarchy doesn't seem as important anymore. Now that a lot of the cloud formats are moving away from the deeply nested folder structures this type of format would work a lot better.

[hmurchison]

Cloud Drive is pretty important for Apple in the near future. While some think of it as simple presenting folder hierarchy for ICloud it has a much more ambitious future. Looking forward to Yosemite launching so I can dig in

[KipV]

It seems like Apple is rethinking the file system; trying new ways of doing things, and jettisoning ideas that didn't work well. I would expect them to have some sort of replacement to the Finder. Spotlight seems to be getting the first major interface change in a decade maybe that will gradually become the Finder's replacement. We have Apple rethinking their OSs and third parties like Affinity also rethinking traditional ways of dealing with files. It is pretty exciting times.