Companies make more money Consumers put up with it And devs like how it's friendly to major rewrites and tinkering. I use a lot of cloud stuff because there's

Companies make more money Consumers put up with it And devs like how it's friendly to major rewrites and tinkering. I use a lot of cloud stuff because there's no other choice. There's no P2P Tile or YoSmart. I'm not interested in hosting something as important as email myself when there are entire teams that focus on that full time. They kind of have the upper hand. What's the alternative to google docs? Does it involve maintaining a server or saying the words "Ok, just download this app and type in this IP address"? Open source and (Non-cryptocurrency) P2P is probably always going to be the best for this. Commercial software seems to have clearly decided that it wants to be SaSS. Maybe there's a niche market for non SaSS, but so many people who want local stuff are concerned with privacy, or have a very low budget, and prefer open source if it's available. Obsidian seems to be doing well as proprietary local first software. Now that SyncThing exists, it's a lot easier to develop and use this kind of thing.