Meta trends - what have we learned?

Posted by Franz Grieser
Dec 26, 2013 at 10:35 PM

jimspoon wrote:
>...
>I guess for complex desktop programs, the volume is relatively low, and
>the development can only be profitable if a much higher price is
>charged. Still, it does make me wonder if developers of complex desktop
>programs would actually maximize their profits by offering them at much
>lower prices that would stimulate greater demand.

Hm. I’d say the tools we discuss here are niche products. Though almost all of the readers of one of my newsletters (covering Microsoft Outlook) have a licence for OneNote, only a small percentage actually uses the software; they do not even use the notes feature in Outlook. A number of journalists and writers I know use Evernote for collecting notes - it’s free and multiplatform, and all they know. But beyond these information workers: the big void.

There simply is not a mass market you could address by offering complex applications at a cheaper price.