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> The fact that a typical web-based word processor today offers only trivial formatting tools doesn't invalidate all of that previous experience and understandi
by dctoedt 13y ago
> The fact that a typical web-based word processor today offers only trivial formatting tools doesn't invalidate all of that previous experience and understanding; it just means that a typical web-based word processor today isn't very good at producing well-presented documents.
Or it could be that for many people, "good enough" is good enough; they simply don't care about the incremental benefits of "well-presented documents" enough to abandon the convenience of Web-based word processors.
It's sort of like the audiophiles who love vinyl record albums and vacuum-tube amplifiers but can only listen in their sound rooms, versus the iPhone users who can take their 10,000 songs everywhere they go.
- Silhouette 13y agoOr it could be that for many people, "good enough" is good enough I don't think there's any "could" about it. What you said is certainly true, and a huge proportion of the most successful web apps have been built on that premise, and there's nothing wrong with that. However, that doesn't mean those who still need or want something of higher quality are dinosaurs who are somehow being left behind the times. While I understand your music analogy, I don't think the relative differences in quality and flexibility are very similar at all in the two cases.
- ekianjo 13y agoYeah, just like people replaced their pc with a tablet that can only do 1percent of what a pc does but still live with it. That does not mean there is no need for PCs anymore.