The big problem with everything being a web-app is that productivity simply becomes impossible in places where infrastructure is barely to developing-country standards…like, apparently, much of the UK. Platforms like Hubspot, with so many assets, just stop functioning completely.

It's quite astonishing that I can get better reception in rural Thailand than on a train passing by the outskirts of Birmingham.

At the same time, it also reflects poorly on those who make their platforms inaccessible to those with slow/unstable connections. Microsoft, for all Excel has that collaborative editing nonsense, is just useless in such conditions; I got kicked off the live version because "changes couldn't be merged" and simply ended up with a local copy, with no way to force it to merge back into live.