Apple switches soup for silos, and I’m sad.

While it’s the “modern” way, part of me is disappointed to read about the silo-ing of applications that Apple is looking to enforce in the Mac App store. It is a natural step to mimic iOS (and another step on cross-compatibility), and it echoes the approach Microsoft will have on the Windows 8 store, but when you look back at the data storage on the Apple Newton, there’s a complete 180.

For those of you not aware, the Newton stored all your data in a “soup” of information. Think of it like a cloud of data in your PDA. And any application could interact with any bit of info  in this system-wide database. Now we’re back to having lockers of information on data rich devices.

Missed opportunities are everywhere in tech, but this one feels like one that could have really changed how people worked with their mobile devices.