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Re:Adobe joins the Chromebook party, starting with Photoshop by ChuckMcM on Monday September 29, 2014 @06:39PM (#8385745)
That is true, and to the extent that those cloud applications don't use an open interchange standard you won't be able to share documents with them. Having lived through this from before[1], it isn't as dire as you might imagine. What happened last time is that it forced a lot of interchange formats. Will be interesting to see if it does that again. All of the market forces are still there, person A wants to send a document to person B, etc. Of course everyone can send HTML or RTF documents like they do today.

[1] Intel used MultiMate for its documents (as did a bunch of lawyers) while nearly everybody in the tech space was using Interleaf. Xerox was trying to be the paperless glue for the middle. We got PostScript out of it, which was an interesting compromise.

Re:Adobe joins the Chromebook party, starting with Photoshop by pyre on Monday September 29, 2014 @10:34PM (#8386491)
The difference here is that you actually had a copy of the data. If the vendor (e.g. Microsoft) decides to lock you in, they will keep the data in the cloud, with their app being the only access point. Then, locally you will only have a copy of "application state" at any point in time.