You’ve been using a note-taking app for three years. You paid for it, you organized your entire work life inside it, and now a larger company has acquired it. The announcement email arrives with words like “exciting news” and “better together.” Six months later, the app is sunsetted, your export window closes, and you lose a chunk of your professional memory. This isn’t a hypothetical. It’s a pattern that has played out with apps like Sparrow (acquired by Google in 2012, abandoned shortly aft...

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