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The current focus of the software industry on 'apps' rather than data seems a little like walking into a hardware shop full of elaborate cases, holsters, display racks, for tools.. and no benches or sawhorses.

We're information workers. We work with information. That's our input and our output.

And yet we don't really have any good means of dealing directly with information itself. We have to work indirectly through apps and silos; and good luck if we need to use one dataset on two platforms.