Re:KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rus...
by fsloth on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:45PM
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Re:KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rus...
by Loquebantur on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:27PM
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You engage in whataboutism.
The point here is, the actually largest share of consumers doesn't get served by the "market".
It's a systemic failure and people fail to grasp the exemplary nature of it.
Monopoly rent extraction targeting a captive audience
Business customers don't pay for "having more buttons than mere consumers". Their business depending on such a crucial tool makes them reliant on swift and extensive support, negligible down times and so on. They are being cornered by ecosystem lock-in and workflow dependencies.
You could sell the same software at low prices to both "classes" of customers and charge extra for the services relevant for businesses. But then the fiction of "professional" whatever would be gone on the business side. And more importantly, companies like SketchUp would have to admit, they are merely SaaS with bad scaling prospects.