Online (Cloud) Outliners

Posted by Dr Andus
Aug 19, 2014 at 04:29 PM

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
It is interesting how many outlining options there are in the cloud, and
>yet how sparse the outliners for Windows have been over the years. I
>wonder why that is. Any thoughts?

My guess is that

1) the cloud (i.e. subscription) is the only way to make money out of an outliner these days, especially as

2) outliner software users seem to be a fairly small niche to make it worthwhile to serve;

3) there is an expectation today that new software is multi-platform and can be synced, so probably developers start with the cloud solution and mobile (iOS, Android etc.) clients, and develop Windows clients later (if ever). It probably doesn’t help that Microsoft have decided to conflate the Windows desktop and mobile operating systems…