That you have to log in to an account use? What logging and data mining are they performing? not advised for anyone that has access to secure or sensitive data.
There are so many apps that I wish the developers would stop ‘adding features’ to and simply maintain with changing os’s and security whatnot. But sales people want forever new features to justify charging for a new version in an arms race against competitor software. Abandoning the idea that software should be a tool and promoting software is a service is incredibly problematic.
I can’t even start to count how many things came from literature film and art. The tech industry isn’t really about inventing new things, its about making things that were previously ideas into reality and profiting by putting it into everybody’s hands. Sure new things are invented along the way, but overall? Hard pressed to think of things tech created that wasn’t previously science fiction, or taking some real world thing and putting it on a computer screen, or improving it by making it more accessible / portable / available to everyone.
Augmented Reality/ Virtual Reality. Concepts came from scifi writers back as early as the 30’s and video artists and scientists started making working experiences in the 60’s & 70’s