Some Love for Interoperable Apps

Add Obsidian to this list - working in markdown is freeing.

And the ecosystem around fitness tracking - Garmin, Strava, TrainingPeaks, Wahoo, & others all connect to each other and let you export workout data as a .fit file. The market dynamic has led to amazing cooperation which lets each provider specialize and empowers you to stitch together point solutions into something that works for you.

This post from Steph Ango (CEO of Obsidian) shares the same sentiment

https://stephango.com/file-over-app

There is a law in Europe that says this should always be the case.

Unfortunately USA tends to set the global standard for greed, deception, dark patterns, accidental bugs that live for many years and just happen to prevent uses getting their data. And often flagrant disregard for international law backed by Washington.