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What about Obsidian app on Android asking for permission to access all files on the device?

This is why:

https://help.obsidian.md/android#Storage+permissions

They seems to trade off privacy protections to gain performance, which I think is a very odd choice.

Did they publicly establish that that the scoped storage is hurting their performance to an unacceptable degree, before making that choice?

What if users are not fine with that choice of giving a blanket approval to a closed source system.

There is no good reason why Obsidian needs to see more than its own files and the specific documents that the user wants it to see.

Obsidian Sync is a paid service.

Would you trade absolute dogshit performance (looong delays for syncing notes between mobile and desktop) for privacy with a product you pay actual money every month?

Because either apple is too stringent or the obsidian devs are too lazy, I see this this as a better alternative to not being able to sync your files on an ios device with your sync tool of choice. Right now the only two ways to sync your obsidian notebook on an iphone or ipad is to use icloud or obsidian's paid service. icloud falls short when your ipad is your only apple device, and I already have syncing across every other device with a different cloud service.

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