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Throwaway for reasons The future is not native open source applications - it's cloud hosted productivity software with your data locked away, with your product
by prosofttw 5y ago
Throwaway for reasons
The future is not native open source applications - it's cloud hosted productivity software with your data locked away, with your productivity a slave to outages, your bandwidth, and whatever features your license bequeaths.
This is what we're being asked to build by customers - I'm on a team doing this, and fought against it, but it's still going to happen. I know it's going to get flamed on Reddit and HN the next time the product makes the rounds, but internet comments aren't subscription dollars.
- throw_m239339 5y agoWhat do you mean? "Stadia" but for AutoCAD, Maya and Photoshop?
- gen220 5y agoNot the OP, but this is already happening for the browser. See e.g. https://mightyapp.com/ https://mightyapp.com/ that was posted to HN not too long ago. It’s not shocking to hear that people are asking for stuff like this. But I agree with the commenter, that this represents regression in our industry, that consumer software is being taken away from the consumer. Customers (read: working professionals who need to use Chrome/Creative Suite/whatever for their jobs) are driving this change. We can just hope it’s limited to professional software and not personal software. But who knows. :/ I hope we haven’t passed the peak of open, general computing.