I just installed Oracle DB to help my mum with managing her recipes. It's really improved her TTT (Time to table).
Went with SAP to keep in contact with granny. She has her rolodex organized now, it is a blast.
Business software is so good now, that it’s competing with consumer software
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Re: Business software is so good now, that it’s competing with consumer software
#32In my experience the best software is the one that no longer distinguishes between the markets. For example, I've just found the Serif Affinity graphics software suite. Each of their programs can be used as substitute for ten times more expensive Adobe software and is good enough for professionals (with caveats and limitations, I suppose) but at the same time is affordable enough for non-professional consumers.
Recently, almost the whole pro audio market has shifted in a similar way. They realized that they can make more money by targeting hobbyists and musicians instead of studio owners, so now most companies offer 70% to 90% sales from time to time. Others have started to launch software at a tenth of the price that used to be normal - $30 instead of $300.
I prefer that to the "free plus pro" version model. But I admit that I have no clue about marketing and sales and don't know the downsides of aiming at consumer and professionals at the same time.
Re: Business software is so good now, that it’s competing with consumer software
#33How does he go from "Zoom is great" to "Business software is so good now, that it's competing with consumer software"? His only supporting example is Zoom. Then he goes on to generalize the shit out of it which is not really that convincing. Zoom succeeded in consumer space because of COVID, period. Good for them, but I don't like people who spin stories. Even before covid I've known about Zoom for a while as some ne…
> His only supporting example is Zoom.
As another well-known example, the hottest new teen sexting app is currently Google Docs.
Re: Business software is so good now, that it’s competing with consumer software
#34How does he go from "Zoom is great" to "Business software is so good now, that it's competing with consumer software"? His only supporting example is Zoom. Then he goes on to generalize the shit out of it which is not really that convincing. Zoom succeeded in consumer space because of COVID, period. Good for them, but I don't like people who spin stories. Even before covid I've known about Zoom for a while as some ne…
I know a lot of folks who heavily use Trello to organize their personal lives. He's wrong about Slack, though. That mindshare among people who don't already use Slack at work, and even among many who do, belongs overwhelmingly to Discord.
But Trello was designed as the opposite of prevailing business tools at that time and part of that was that consumer use cases (e.g. college projects) were mentioned often in earlier examples, so it's hard to claim it as an example of a business tool migrating to consumer use.
Its taken a more business first approach since the atlassian acquisition for sure, but that wasn't always the exclusive focus.
Re: Business software is so good now, that it’s competing with consumer software
#35Can you think of another mainstream video calling software that’s as good as Zoom, for consumers? FaceTime, circa 2010. Styluses to capacitive touch. Taxis to Ubers. Torrents to Netflix. MP3s to Spotify Since when were torrents, MP3s, and styluses anything to do with business software? The trend of business adoption of “consumer” tech had basically one standout example, which was the shift from Microsoft to Apple pro…
This confused me too at first, but I think it's being used as an example of improvements in consumer software compared to prior consumer software that the author feels business software would be unlikely to have done.
Re: Business software is so good now, that it’s competing with consumer software
#36In my experience the best software is the one that no longer distinguishes between the markets. For example, I've just found the Serif Affinity graphics software suite. Each of their programs can be used as substitute for ten times more expensive Adobe software and is good enough for professionals (with caveats and limitations, I suppose) but at the same time is affordable enough for non-professional consumers. Recen…
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Re: Business software is so good now, that it’s competing with consumer software
#37I just installed Oracle DB to help my mum with managing her recipes. It's really improved her TTT (Time to table).
wouldn't sqlite do the job just fine?
Re: Business software is so good now, that it’s competing with consumer software
#38I just installed Oracle DB to help my mum with managing her recipes. It's really improved her TTT (Time to table).
Went with SAP to keep in contact with granny. She has her rolodex organized now, it is a blast.
Good for you, I just spent 500m euro to get my family onto SAP turned out strategic goals for my family did not align and we had to cancel.
Re: Business software is so good now, that it’s competing with consumer software
#39The author has never had a look at any of Atlassian's business software.
Atlassian has grown large by producing business software that can be described as "low quality" at best!
Re: Business software is so good now, that it’s competing with consumer software
#40Nice article. I'd love to see examples of people using slack for personal life. Don't know anyone who does this.
I have a private, premium slack with ~20 of my closest friends from college, which I set up in March when we all were sent home from campus. It replaces many many disparate group chats and fits our need for customizable text-and-image chatrooms, voice and video calls, and support for mac, windows, linux, android, and iOS, with machines of vastly different levels of power and quality (although it could be a little more lightweight to help out low-tier computers).