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Posted by tightbeam
Jul 23, 2018 at 11:51 AM

Some good points here, though I’d substitute “Windows” for each instance of “mobile” or “iOS”. Last I looked, the iOS market was but a speck of the Windows market.

And I take exception to part of this:

> First is that it [the merry world of Mac] is a heavily saturated market in which competitors already support multiple platforms.

Most of the really good Mac outliner software does *not* support Windows. Why indeed develop yet more software (which does basically the same thing) for a “heavily saturated market” when the bone-dry, by comparison, Windows market looks pleadingly up from its supine position, arid tongue desperate for the merest drop of Ulysses or DevonThink or ...

Luhmann wrote:
Several people suggested that the desktop-first development strategy is
>realistic. I suppose a lot depends on whether the developer is doing
>this to make a living or just as a labor of love. If the latter, I wish
>them the best of luck. If it is a business, however, I’m not sure I
>understand. There are a couple of problems. First is that it is a
>heavily saturated market in which competitors already support multiple
>platforms. Why would anyone who already has a decent product that
>supports all their devices switch to something that didn’t? I suppose it
>is OK if you have enough users who spend all day and night in front of a
>desktop computer, but from the stats I see on websites I manage I know
>that most people are now visiting from mobile devices. What are these
>users supposed to do when they want to add some task away from their
>computer? Wait till they get home or to the office? Use another device?
>OK, so maybe it makes sense as a long-term plan. In two or three years
>there will be support for multiple devices and then the business will
>really take off because of all that time working on making sure that you
>have a really solid foundation on the desktop. Maybe, but (unless I’m
>wrong about this) you would have to manage with a really limited user
>base during that time, and by the time you are ready the competitors
>will already be releasing the next generation upgrades of their
>products. Even though I don’t use Things 3, I admit that it was a pretty
>amazing update from Things 2. What will Things 4 look like? The
>developer of 2Do (who supports 3 platforms on his own) is in the process
>of buying BusyCal, what will it look like when he’s finished integrating
>the two apps? So, to repeat what I said at the beginning. As a labor of
>love, and a playground to experiment with some really interesting ideas
>I think this is fantastic, but I really don’t see anything taking off
>without mobile from the very beginning…