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tasuki on March 3, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Joplin is an open source note-taking app

Hmm, why not do one thing and do it well? Is there much benefit for each and every app to reimplement its own seamless sync?

kidfiji on March 3, 2024 [–]

I think in a lot of cases it's a means of monetizing an app where everything else is essentially free/full-featured without being behind a paywall

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