Fair about being annoyingly dramatic, sorry. I'm just trying to use my device and Apple makes it harder, not easier to do simple things like backup. You can bu

Fair about being annoyingly dramatic, sorry. I'm just trying to use my device and Apple makes it harder, not easier to do simple things like backup. You can build abstractions on top of the files and folders (and almost everyone does), but still provide access to regular files. The entire point about files and folder abstractions is that they are portable across platforms and they are technically sound. They want a moat, so they built one.