I don't really fully agree with this but that's not the point. What worries me is that even if you are right, the first class makes the rules and wouldn't lead the transition into the system you describe
That's actually really similar to the digital infrastructure I'm building for myself. It's deceptively hard. I also want automatic tagging and two way updating between PDFs and the filesystem on my laptop. You can contact me at shreyssecondbrain at gmail
You should check out hyperpaper, and maybe let's build an obsidian plugin with similar functionality. The problem right now with obsidian is pen input lag atleast on my Onyx device.
And that's my problem with it- if I buy a device and what to do whatever with it, who is the company to specifically stop me from doing that? I'm not asking them to design anything special for me, just allow open access to the device so that the community can build whatever we want
Funny how every industry is criticized for being too greedy when the set up of incentives really doesn't leave any other option. It's existence vs being greedy and people (and firms) do what's obvious. If we want a music industry that isn't greedy it needs to be listener and musician owned.
Wasn't that always the point of vc funded big tech apps? Lure in users while burning through enough cash to power a steam locomotive, kill most competition and then take their money? At least in India I am seeing alternatives emerge already in the form of indrive, which I have been using a lot more
(Read: investors chasing the next big thing (after seeing the tech boom) give money to a person smart enough to know that to get the money all he has to do is promise the next big thing from the next tech boom) (and later use the money to hire smart people who sometimes actually do build a big thing)
GP makes no remark on the morality/practicality of copyright. Also, having people sue big companies for copyright might lead to more of what you're arguing for, in a show them the taste of their own medicine way