On my MacBook I have Google Docs. I also have Zoom.<\/p>\n
I use both of these programs pretty much every day, as well as manyother useful pieces of software.<\/p>\n
They co-exist with one another in a kind of uneasy truce, as though they are shouting at each other across a wide ravine.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Why can’t all my apps play nice with one another? Do they really all need to be locked within their respective separate islands?<\/p>\n
Or is this just the price we must pay for internet software that comes from large warring corporations?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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