MindManager back for Mac

Posted by washere
Mar 20, 2018 at 05:13 AM

Online, big packages are going the free direction, DropBox Paper, Google Docs etc with others joining in. Will be the same for other areas unless specialized, then even they will lose to Data.

Offline, numerous Office suites for all platforms of varying sizes, prices etc all opening up docs, xls, ppt, DBs etc. Or free open-source wares. In office arena alone, OpenOffice or the migrating devs/users to even better LibreOffice. Not to mention numerous PortableApps which can fit on a tiny usb stick.

The big money will be online, made by the giants, by giving away the wares and getting the metrics and data. The users becomes the product via their data. And also the powerbase to be tapped as the Facebook/Russia saga just showed today. FB lost tens of billions of dollars in shares value today. Due to Data, it’s future’s control of, as threatened by legislation. For every loser, there will be new winners.

For niche software, most secure and promising area is not general productivity genres.They either have to sell out early or be beaten by the same richer companies sooner or later. Best bet is to go into very niche areas: finance, engineering, manufacture, infrastructure, science, transport etc etc. But needs expertise knowledge or partnering. The general productivity software arena has few top winners and no long term security.

However if you can get into the data game, then you are looking at even bigger bucks. The FB data on the usb stick that Russian linked professor sold to Cambridge Analytica, looked at by lawyers investigating undeclared campaign finance violations is being approximately valued at $100m. That’s the golden-egg, if you can create a golden-egg laying chicken, you are looking at billion$. Which makes the rest look like chicken feed. Data.