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"In the future we will be lucky to have apps that work offline with local data. "

Are you from the past? This here is 2021. And right here, the expensive, professional apps still lets you grudgingly do it, but small/casual apps that work really offline? That became rare. Usually it is mainly server and some local cache, you better take care of, if you are in an area with bad connection.

But more and more of my peers realize, how much spotify sucks, when there is suddenly no more internet.

Well, I still have my own music collection(and my own player for it) and use spotify just for discovery. Each to his own and thank you, for the existence of open source and foss.



Office, creative suite, and your flavor of pdf viewer still all work primarily off local files since cloud storage vendors all compete and don’t interconnect except at integration for the endpoint.


Office has OneDrive (IIRC some are cloud-only, OneNote I think) and many of Adobe's apps save to Adobe's cloud.


>"but small/casual apps that work really offline?"

I do not have single small/casual app I paid for or free ones that does not work with offline data.


Spotify works fine offline, you just have to download the tracks ahead of time.


Yeah, but there is a tight limit.

And they get removed after some time.




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