Be ready to move on when your apps bite the dust
You stored everything in that app. Now it's dead. RIP. Will color and beauty ever return to the world? Yes, it's really not that bad. (NeONBRAND via Unsplash/)Not every app and service makes it—we've recently lost the likes of MoviePass, PlayStation Vue, and the Cortana app for Android and iOS, and in years past we’ve said goodbye to a whole host of great tech services (we still miss Google Reader).You can't necessarily stop companies from closing the shutters on their creations, but you can at least mitigate the damage and prepare for the worst. If you do, when something you've come to rely on does close down, the impact isn't quite as great.Find a way to extract all your dataExport options should probably be one of the first features you check for when you’re signing up for a new service—it’s much easier to endure the death of an app if...