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It doesn't matter... much.
What you choose will not "kill" the overall experience either way. My suggestion is to find & solve for the bigger experience issues you have. (Or if this is your biggest problem, congrats on a great product!)
However, what will kill the experience is if you:
Switch back and forth between "your" and "my" with no rhyme or ...
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I'd like to add that behavior of the control is prior to the wording.
There is not one true best wording; the wording depends on the behavior and the purpose; and there are many different ways to approach this.
Assuming the user first selects the file, then submits:
Do you want to support selecting several files, before submitting?
Will a user be able to ...
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If you target tech-savvy audience, then "Browse...", IMHO, is the most associated word for "Open up the system file dialog, and let me navigate through the folders of my computer's hard drive to locate a local file". At least that is what I expect from experienced computer users, who see "Browse..." all the time, and know exactly what would happen if they ...
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If you're going to go with a Select Files... label, Select Files to Upload is a better explanation than Select Files from Computer. Explaining the action in terms of what they're doing or what they need to do, which is a constant, keeps the label relevant in a number of different scenarios.
For example: Some users who have just plugged in a thumb drive, ...
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In the specific case of android apps, the design guide has this to say:
Talk directly to the reader using second person ("you").
It gives examples too. If you're designing for Android alone, fitting in with the platform usually trumps a personal preference for first or second person.
Its page about settings echoes this, in slightly more conceptual ...
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