Re:Why Aren't You Developing in the Cloud?
by eli_gottlieb on Monday April 02, 2012 @06:40PM
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>In addition, the overwhelming success of SaaS vs native apps leads me to think that your personal tastes and concerns are not representative of the average consumer.
Can we call this the Market Fallacy? "It sells most, therefore consumers must have wanted it above all possible alternatives."
Wrong. Consumers wanted it above all available alternatives. Key problem here is that software makers have been getting themselves out of the business of single-upfront-license proprietary, desktop software for nearly 15 years now, as hard as they can. They don't like competing with free (the open-source alternatives or the pirates). And didn't PG write a whole damned essay on this recently?
Just because SaaS is easier to treat as excludable economic property doesn't make it better.
Can we call this the Market Fallacy? "It sells most, therefore consumers must have wanted it above all possible alternatives."
Wrong. Consumers wanted it above all available alternatives. Key problem here is that software makers have been getting themselves out of the business of single-upfront-license proprietary, desktop software for nearly 15 years now, as hard as they can. They don't like competing with free (the open-source alternatives or the pirates). And didn't PG write a whole damned essay on this recently?
Just because SaaS is easier to treat as excludable economic property doesn't make it better.