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> Mobiles have shown that it's possible to remove the concept of files entirely from the user facing side of an OS. I think the way Android does it is complete

> Mobiles have shown that it's possible to remove the concept of files entirely from the user facing side of an OS. I think the way Android does it is completely the wrong way around, as it makes it completely centered around apps, not documents. Making you a slave to the App, which in turn gets used to force you into using cloud services. It goes so far that you don't even have control over your files anymore, if you delete and App, the files created by that App will get deleted with it, you don't even get a warning. I rarely use Android, but every interaction with it has been god awful. And from what I hear new version of Android will start making tools like SSHelper impossible, so you can't even workaround the madness anymore.

Double_a_92 5y ago
How is an iPhone (or other mobile OS) better?
CryptoBanker 5y ago
Android has had file explorer capability for over a decade? iOS hasn’t even had it for 5 years?
- cesarb 5y ago
  There are two main places where Android apps store files: within an application-private slice of the main filesystem, and the shared /sdcard (which, as its name implies, was originally a removable SD card, but nowadays is just another slice of the main filesystem). What the parent is complaining about is the former (and a per-application directory on the later), which is removed whenever the application is uninstalled (or the user tells Android to clear the application state); and unless you have root on the phone (or are looking at the per-application directory below /sdcard), or the application explicitly exports it, it's not even visible to any file explorer.