This isn’t a hard position, but I’m leaning towards the idea that we may actually have all the desktop software we need, at least in broad strokes. The applicat

This isn’t a hard position, but I’m leaning towards the idea that we may actually have all the desktop software we need, at least in broad strokes. The applications could of course always get better <cough>Microsoft Office<cough>, but I’m not sure there are all that many unfilled needs in desktop software. “The platform is the application”, in a sense. The last piece of software that really truly changed my life was Waze. And that software couldn’t have been desktop software. The next piece was one of Google Translate and/or the many language translation apps in the App Store, including the camera-based ones. Again, that’s software that if it was useful at all would have a very different level of usefulness as desktop software. At some point I suspect AI will actually become useful, and that might - MIGHT - open up new desktop software categories. But we aren’t there yet.