I think the "here today, gone tomorrow" nature of app stores is impairing file interoperability. There's just little incentive to allow your productivity or creative app to play with others (unless that's the whole point of your app, like PlainText). I've given up on fancy note-taking apps, knowing there will always be a better one that's not compatible with my old data.
In another decade we'll have a whole lot of unreadable proprietary app data, inaccessible because the original app doesn't work on new hardware. Extracting it will be a tedious process of either reverse engineering or emulating the old hardware/software combination.
Not that we haven't been down this road before, but it just seems like it's worse this time. Even the word "file format" seems archaic, and not many (other than pirates) seem interested in reverse engineering and/or documenting them.
In another decade we'll have a whole lot of unreadable proprietary app data, inaccessible because the original app doesn't work on new hardware. Extracting it will be a tedious process of either reverse engineering or emulating the old hardware/software combination.
Not that we haven't been down this road before, but it just seems like it's worse this time. Even the word "file format" seems archaic, and not many (other than pirates) seem interested in reverse engineering and/or documenting them.