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by toomuchtodo
4463 days ago
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> I think it would be good for the industry to move away from ad supported services, and to let users pay to host the services themselves. I somewhat agree with your perspective, but think its going to be a hard sell. People buy apps because you don't have to think about it. Configuring a service is in direct opposition of that convenience, and I don't think you'll ever have enough training wheels in the interface to fix that. I could be wrong. |
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Web Apps have been very good to developers. Zero piracy, no installation issues, low support costs. Users like them because it's simple to get started, they aren't tied to one computer. The downsides are all long term -- and it's hard to get people to think about the future, or things like privacy.
I'm not sure where the drive would come from to make it happen. I don't see which company would put in the investment to get it started.