Interoperability

On my MacBook I have Google Docs. I also have Zoom.

I use both of these programs pretty much every day, as well as manyother useful pieces of software.

They co-exist with one another in a kind of uneasy truce, as though they are shouting at each other across a wide ravine.

I cannot embed my Zoom window into a Google document, and I cannot automatically upate the contents a Google Doc from the text in my Zoom chat window, or vice versa.

Both Zoom an Google Docs have facilities for creating and inserting sketches and diagrams, but there is no way to go from one to the other.

And neither Zoom nor Google Docs can interact with my 3D modeler in any meaningful way, let alone a presentation tool from another company such as Apple Keynote or Microsoft PowerPoint.

Why can’t all my apps play nice with one another? Do they really all need to be locked within their respective separate islands?

Or is this just the price we must pay for internet software that comes from large warring corporations?

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