Why the file system will never die

Today, traveling in the bus, I had some time to think and my mind wandered towards a discussion on twitter about the impending demise of the file system in the operating systems of tomorrow. This is, of course, fueled by the mobile operating systems like iOS, Android and Symbian where apps have all the access to different files within themselves but the use does not have direct access to them. One of the biggest issues with this is that if the functionality is not there, these files are not available to other softwares that the user installs and that which perform similar tasks to the default app. (more…)