Michael K. expresses a lot of what I’ve been mulling over for the last few months in the The great demise of the file: I want to manage my own data. I want to preserve it myself. I don’t want to depend on another application and its developers to continue to access the stuff I write and the photos I take. Will their apps be there for me in a year? Five years? Ten? Twenty?
Files – plain, jpeg’s, png’s, mp3’s – they’ll be around, as easy to find and use as they have been for the last twenty-five years.
Added on Monday, December 7, 2009 at 1:46 am in Notes. Permalink