The core principle described is distributed collaborative editing within a cloud-storage domain, defined by the mechanism of folder-level permission inheritance in modern operating systems (macOS Catalina). This theory establishes that once a directory containing compatible application files (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) is designated as shared with specific user identities and modification rights, all constituent documents automatically enter an asynchronous or synchronous collaborative state without requiring individual file-specific provisioning. The concept belongs to the domain of cloud computing architecture and document management systems, where the rule posits that real-time co-authoring capability is a property of the container (shared iCloud Drive folder) rather than solely the atomic unit (individual file).
The core principle described is distributed collaborative editing within a cloud-storage domain, defined by the mechanism of folder-level permission inheritance in modern operating systems (macOS Cat…