It&#x27;s sad how Google, Apple et al. have mostly abandoned the use of open standards in favor of locking users to their own closed, craptastic, proprietary services. Lack of interoperability severely limits the usability of cloud based services. Sadly these vendors seem unable to produce decent tools that work well together, so users are left with their data scattered across crappy services (e.g. Google Apps&#x2F;Drive&#x2F;Docs&#x2F;Calendar etc.).<p>Lack of interoperability, vendor lock-in, poor usability of many web based apps and crappy touch based UIs makes me feel like we are living in the dark ages of the information society. It&#x27;s almost as if people have forgotten how powerful tools we had 20 years ago compared to the current web app bloatware and how efficient keyboard + mouse is compared to most touch based UIs.