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Which apps exactly, aside from shopping and maybe encyclopaedias, have migrated to the web ? Desktop publishing ? Nope IDEs ? Nope CAD ? Nope 3D modeling ?
by waps 13y ago
Which apps exactly, aside from shopping and maybe encyclopaedias, have migrated to the web ?
Desktop publishing ? Nope
IDEs ? Nope
CAD ? Nope
3D modeling ? Nope
Mathematical tools ? Nope
So which ones ?
- bryanlarsen 13y agoDesktop publishing: do people still use dedicated apps for that anymore? AFAIK, people just use Word, which is steadily losing share to Google Docs. IDEs? here's 13 of them: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/cloud-ide-developers/ http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/cloud-ide-developers/ CAD? tinkercad, etc. This one is a classic Christofferson innovator's dilemna. Cloud CAD is the obvious way of doing 3D printing, which can & will move up to eat the big guys. 3D modelling? Clara.io, Lagoa Mathematical Tools? Good question. A quick google found this, http://www.ms.uky.edu/~statweb/ http://www.ms.uky.edu/~statweb/ which is 14 years old... I'm sure if I had a better idea of what to google for, I could find something better...
- blueskin_ 13y agoHow many of those services are any good though? Most likely none. How many work without an active low-latency internet connection? Again, most likely none. How many lock you in to their service? Probably not all, but I'd seriously doubt "none".
- bryanlarsen 13y agoAll of them are "good enough" for some users, and have compelling use cases. They aren't feature complete, but they all have small niches where their online nature gives them a compelling advantage over their offline counterparts. From this small niche they can grow "innovator's dilemma" style to be competitive with their desktop competitors. Google Docs is the most obvious example of this -- I don't know anybody who uses Microsoft Word anymore. Obviously I'm in a little bit of a bubble that way, but they've certainly got a large enough user base to grow from. Google Docs works while offline, and the same techniques could work on the competitors I mentioned. In terms of lock-in, all of the services I listed are in the "underdog" phase of growth, where lock-in does more harm than good -- a good interop story with their competitors is more important than the benefits of lock-in. Of course, if they ever reach dominant status this might change, but at the moment, all of the ones I'm familiar with have good & prominent import & export options.
- blueskin_ 13y agoI use LibreOffice, and most people at work use either that or MS Word. At home, it's a mix of LibreOffice and OpenOffice. My old job used to use Google Docs, but I always felt like I was working against it rather than with it, and I know I wasn't the only one - still a lot of .docx, xlsx, odt, etc being sent around and on fileshares despite the policy being to hand over sensitive company data to google.
- nailer 13y agoAs well as those mentioned by the other reply: - Email - Instant messaging - Media playing - Accounting
- TheCoelacanth 13y agoYou're only looking at highly specialized apps which require a complex UI, so they tend to be more resistant to moving to the web. For the vast majority of apps, which you are ignoring, the UI is just a bunch of forms to fill in. New development of that type of app has almost completely moved to the web.