> one can choose between different applications that understand the data format, including writing your own Which is arguably "just" a much deeper form of "own

> one can choose between different applications that understand the data format, including writing your own Which is arguably "just" a much deeper form of "owning your data." One that I wholeheartedly agree with by the way. By the way, I think what the author should have phrased it as is "local first" applications.