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Wouldn't anyone on this site, if they had the knowledge of that, make a competing product? Or perhaps some of us are? That's a fairly lazy question, and I can
by marak830 9y ago
Wouldn't anyone on this site, if they had the knowledge of that, make a competing product?
Or perhaps some of us are?
That's a fairly lazy question, and I cannot see how it would really start a good conversation.
- dpark 9y ago> That's a fairly lazy question, and I cannot see how it would really start a good conversation. And yet, 25 minutes and 42 comments.
- marak830 9y agoIn my defence when I replied there were 3 throwaway replies and nothing through provoking. I do stand corrected though :-)
- dacracot 9y agoNot necessarily... If I said MS-Word, would you decide to go out and create a word processor, probably not since the market is pretty much a done deal.
- supernes 9y agoI get what you mean, but why not? Having a well-established, dominant player doesn't mean there's no opportunity to make a living solving similar problems. "Word" is a huge target, it covers so many use cases that it's possible to focus on a few of them and provide a tailored solution that enough people find valuable. This was the status quo when Google Docs was being developed as well, and OpenOffice for that matter.
- crdoconnor 9y agoBy and large the apps that are bad will be in markets where the purchasing decision makers are not buying based upon the quality of the app. In which case you could create a better competing app and it wouldn't matter.