> we stopped using files to represent information. Figma, Slack, and Notion should save their information to disk. You should be able to open a Notion document,

> we stopped using files to represent information. Figma, Slack, and Notion should save their information to disk. You should be able to open a Notion document, or a Figma design, from your desktop A good observation, but I think it conflates two different trends: 1. Some software platforms deliberately limit what data is stored on your local machine under your control 2. There's been a shift in UI/UX away from using files as a first-class abstraction There's a good case to be made that a UI should generally hide the specifics of its data storage. As an example, it's a good thing that most email clients present the user with their emails, rather than with a raw folder of files. (Internally, the email client might make use of a database rather than a directory, so it might make good back-end sense too.) Of course, that's not the same thing as the email client being hostile to data-portability. iOS strongly commits to this ideal, even at the expense of constraining user actions. The podcast app doesn't let you upload your downloaded podcast episodes to your desktop computer, for instance. Aside: iOS has very poor support for dealing with files in the usual ways, to the point that you pretty much need to use a third-party app to do so. I've found the freeware Documents app by Readdle to be very good for this. > this argument is dead and nobody will ever go back to native apps again I agree that the web as a GUI toolkit is here to stay, but native apps are alive and well too. There's a trend to try to push users off the mobile web and onto native apps (Facebook, Gmail, reddit), rather than the other way round.