There's no money in making a local first app. Businesses want your data, they want you to be dependent on them, and they want to be able to monetize your behavior and attention

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zsoltkacsandi 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

There is money in local first apps, businesses are just greedy.

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observationist 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They want everything to be cloud applications and services that run on terminals you rent, managed through portals you have subscribe to. They want to sell your attention and screenshare on top of making you pay for the privilege of being nickel and dimed, and they want to surveil every aspect of your life, free from liability or accountability for what they do with the data, or who they sell it to.

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JustExAWS 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Today you can still buy Microsoft Office as a one time purchase.

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Loughla 4 days ago | parent [-]

But it still prompts you to sign into your account and "finish setting up Windows" by using onedrive and whatever other cloud bullshit.

And it will continue to do that forever.

Source: when we lose power and the machine restarts unexpectedly, I die a little inside when it goes to the windows set up screen just because I haven't signed in to a Microsoft account.

	▲	JustExAWS 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Do you care about not having a subscription? If so that solves that problem. But in 2025, I have three devices where I for whatever reason may want to have access to my document - my phone, tablet and personal MacBook. That’s not even counting in a pinch, editing on the web if I’m at another trusted computer or on my work computer.