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		sunchild on April 14, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mobile Multitasking "You lose the ability to separate your valuable data from the application, and it encourages lock-in within each app." Most users of MS Word will be familiar with this.

iron_ball on April 14, 2010 [–]

Only because RTF is not well-known among nontechnical users.

ElAura on April 14, 2010 | [–]

And because most moderately complex Word documents will not transfer 100% when you save them as RTF. Or said differently, RTF documents won't display the same in different applications if they contain enough complexity.

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