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>My point is really that it could easily be the norm though. It couldn't and the proof is in the pudding. If it were that easy as you make it seem, we would ha
by Rinzler89 3y ago
>My point is really that it could easily be the norm though.
It couldn't and the proof is in the pudding. If it were that easy as you make it seem, we would have done it a long time ago.
Non-tech people hate switching away form office since that's the only thing they know how to use comfortably, especially to janky stuff like latex that's not WYSIWYG and needs to be compiled. Nobody is gonna use that shit.
And non-tech people are the ones who sign the checks that make the purchasing decisions, and those people hate any kind of friction, hence why companies like Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc are so successful.
Your view on things rings like that infamous HN comment form 2007 saying why Dropbox is a useless invention doomed to fail since we can host files locally on git and easily spin up a FTP server to share them if we want to.
- kaliszad 3y agoArguably, most people I have encountered don't actually know how to use Microsoft Office in any kind of depth but it is a familiar environment for them. It is like most people don't actually drive a car well as supported by car accident statistics. Most work probably shouldn't be done in the Office suite but rather some information system copying the formalized process. Most text processing should probably decouple content from form a lot more and there certainly are people that do just that but it is not the norm.
- Rinzler89 3y ago>but it is a familiar environment for them Being familiar with something way bette than needing to learn from scratch. That's the end of the sales pitch.