About the survival of our Data ( when Apps die )

Posted by Andy Brice
Jun 9, 2025 at 06:34 PM

>So what to do ? Use only apps from big companies like Apple or Microsoft , that are unlikely to disappear in the short/medium term ?

In my experience big companies kill off products as often as small companies, if not more so. Google is famous for killing products.

For longevity:

* Downloadable software beats web software. Web software dies the second the vendor turns off their server. Downloadable software might keep going for decades.

* Windows applications beat Mac applications. Microsoft puts a lot of effort into backward compatibility. Apple nukes their entire ecosystem from orbit every few years.

* Choose software that uses (or can export to) an text based standard format, such as CSV.

As a vendor I hope to keep my applications available to customers for some years after I stop selling them, if I possibly can.

And, if you are having to reshape/reformat data to move it from application to another, maybe consider my Easy Data Transform software. ;0)
https://www.easydatatransform.com