Life is grand

This is why web-applications need to separate out the data, why users should own and control their data separate from the applications that use it. We lost some of that in the transition from desktop to web applications and it would be wise to build it back in.

And I don’t think simple import and export options are enough. GMail should work live off of my cloud storage file-system. Google can cache my data for local processing but if I use another email client on my cloud-storage file-system then GMail should pick up changes just as with a local file-system.

Then when I break the terms and conditions of Google I simply lose access to their service and not my data.

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