NetNewsWire is a wonderful app for keeping track of blogs and websites via RSS feeds. Yesterday, a version of it for iOS was released.

In order to try the app out, I needed to temporarily switch from my current RSS service (Feed Wrangler) to another one (Feedbin). To do so, I imported my data from the old app into the new one, and in a few minutes I was ready to go.

Compared to almost every other technology on the web, this almost feels like magic.

I think of so many of the apps we depend on these days: Gmail, Office, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, Amazon. The idea of being able to take all of your data, export it, and then use to start using a competitor's product seems absurd. But yet, that's exactly what you can do with RSS.

It's also hard to believe that, not long ago at all, this is how all of the web used to be not too long ago. We expected that services would work well with each other, and we could move back and forth between them.

RSS serves as a reminder of this time. My hope is that, thanks to great apps like NetNewsWire, it grows in popularity, and motivates us to continue to develop the web in ways that work well together.