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Nothing prevents it, and many services do it. For example, Nextcloud's client can synchronize folders.
Some reasons that could be making it less common are:
- Phones are sometimes thought of a device where bandwidth is cheaper than storage, and you can assume connectivity almost all the time. So instead of syncing local files and using up space, it's assumed that users would rather do on-demand sync with some kind of caching mechanism.
- Android phones have more involved filesystem management. Not every directory is as easily writable/usable by default.
- Android UX seems to be pushing a paradigm where filesystems are abstracted away and there is no notion of hierarchical folder trees. There's probably a good number of android users who don't even know what folders are let alone understand the point of synchronizing.
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