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Well... Apple did. The rest just followed them. And Android still has a visible file system.

• spacexsucks 5y ago
  The apple fan boys cant stand the truth. Ios and app file systems are completely to blame
• unstatusthequo 5y ago
  Oh come on. How can you seriously say that? I think what you mean is “smartphones hide the underlying file system, regardless of platform.”
  • _abox 5y ago
    Android has always had a file manager and doesn't hide the filesystem from tools like adb. You still can't access the OS files and app private storage but when you download a file you can actually choose where to save it :) IOS hides it a lot more. There wasn't even a file manager until they introduced one with iPadOS.
  • yucky 5y ago
    Nah it is an Apple ethos. I remember the first time looking at a browser on a friends computer and asking what the URL was and he just said {domain}.com. And I'm wondering what the full URL is and apparently that is hidden from users? Blew my mind. So yeah.
• herval 5y ago
  Palm Pilots didn't have folders :-)