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Before SAAS (all the products you mention?), people could reject changes by refusing to update to the next version - see Windows Vista. Now that feedback mechan
by mkj 5y ago
Before SAAS (all the products you mention?), people could reject changes by refusing to update to the next version - see Windows Vista. Now that feedback mechanism has been lost, so there's less of a handbrake on developers pushing forward too fast.
Maybe the pendulum will swing back towards self hosted/installed apps. Alternatively maybe there's a good business model cloning the "good old version" of popular SAAS apps and keeping them unchanging.
- Cthulhu_ 5y ago> Alternatively maybe there's a good business model cloning the "good old version" of popular SAAS apps and keeping them unchanging. To some degree that's already happened, with e.g. the myriad of feed readers growing in popularity after Google shuttered theirs. And thanks to GDPR, a company is required to hand over data to users if they demand it - which the 'clone' can import.
- Workaccount2 5y agoI think software companies feel under pressure to fill the extremely large boots of their wildly expensive SaaS plans. I can only hope the next wave of "innovation" is "pay only once for your static needs!".