I haven't used the Files app in awhile, but I think it might have special permissions? I know I had a real hard time deleting music to free up space (As menti

I haven't used the Files app in awhile, but I think it might have special permissions? I know I had a real hard time deleting music to free up space (As mentioned, I don't think the Unix security model would have been enough -- not even close, it's a hard problem) I think the problem is that APPS own data, not USERS This is a bit incoherent. Like the Amazon Music app has its own private data area to store files. And then I can put my own mp3s on my phone, but that experience sucks. And those files are in no way related to the Amazon mp3s. A related thing is that Android doesn't seem to expose USB drives as files -- it's a custom protocol now, and you need a custom app on Ubuntu/Windows/OS X. I don't even remember -- the experience was so bad, that I stopped trying to use Android that way --- I mean Windows is a bit like this too. It's full of bespoke/proprietary files that you're not supposed to touch. It's commercial, so it's code-centric, not data-centric. Unix is data-centric. Your files come first, and then you can use different programs to open them and manipulate them. As a real concrete example, see this restoration of a Flash video game -- it has different programs for code, visual assets, audio assets, etc. I Still Use Flash from 8 months ago -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34079543 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34079543 My comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34082894 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34082894 This is beautiful! You could argue that the Unix data-centric model got pushed into the developer niche, and end users have chosen the app-centric model. But I would say there are tons of computer-literate people out there (making Minecraft mods, professors doing experiments, etc.) who are limited by the app-centric model. Computers could just do a lot more, but you have to wait for the person who owns your data to implement the features you want (e.g. the whole Adobe ecosystem, Autodesk ecosystem, Google sheets, docs, and more)