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Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened
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Imagine there was no Explorer or Finder, and the only way you accessed files was through the apps that use them.
There’s still bytes on disk, but they are accessed as documents not files.
Which is how most Android and pretty much all iOS apps do it.