(The)BrainDead? (Hopefully not yet)

Posted by 22111
Oct 26, 2020 at 02:16 PM

Wikipedia: “A focused beam of energy [???] (such as a laser) that contains and transmits information [?????].” (Stylishness is not everything, you know, and even Wilde would agree here.)

Speaking of justpromises, I just got the idea that there’s worse than justpromises, let me explain:

Above (citations, but in my wording): “yes, TB currently lacks ... and that’s not good ...” and “yes, it could be called a rent indeed”.

Now, many user “stay with” some product, also financially, i.e. they continue to finance it, more or less, by purchasing updates, or even by paying (strict or simili-) rents, while they are quite unhappy though, and really, (or really) useful new things don’t come their way.

They do this, to their individual degree, in the hope of “financing further development”, or even, and that’s certainly the case for some TB users, in the hope of getting back lost things, allegedly earlier than without their funding, sometimes even in the fear of that shop closing down (, too).

Ok. But there remains the question of the allocation of those funds: Do the developers really, firmly promise to allocate them as their user base expects? Not necessarily, and things “going cloud” - aren’t 3/4 or 4/5 of the discussions cloud-(product) centered? -, it’s very well possible that developers - speaking in general here, not for TB or other specific products - use those funds, perhaps even to a quite large degree, for (further) cloud development… and that very probably means then that your funds will not really finance elaborate functionality, even in the cloud (the latter being an idea you might well adhere to), but “larger, not deeper things”, even marketing expenditures after all.

Thus, if “cloud” isn’t quite your thingy, you will even finance their further departure from what YOU want(ed)... to a quite tiny degree, admittedly, as far as you personally are concerned, but then, if there’re lots of wishful thinkers opening their purses like you do, well, it WILL make some impact… onto an agenda which isn’t yours, to say the least.

Today on spiegel.de: SAP shocks investors, minus 21 p.c. [well, they will recoup…] ... Wegen des noch schnelleren Umstiegs auf Cloudsoftware müssen sich Anleger nun darauf einstellen, dass SAP bis dahin auch kaum Fortschritte bei der Profitabilität machen wird. - The force (!) their switch (!) to cloud software, so that cuts into their profitability race (!) in the meanwhile. (Don’t criticize this translation, it’s 1:1, fact-wise.)

Then, the “most valuable German corporation” has got to inform people, whilst exotic ventures (TB…) have not, so you’re on your own with your expectations, justified or not, and your purchase / financial decisions…

But at the end of the day, when 3/4, 4/5 of customers, prospects do want to go cloud, who are we, flaky warners, to spit in your soup - ey? Just bear in mind that the old adage, “they don’t even have the [I said it was old!:] manpower to look into your stuff” isn’t true anymore, with all the “big data”, AI and that. So be prepared that “they” will make your things work for them - not thinking especially of TB here, but of Apple e.g.: Just imagine you and your things being the apple, and they take a good bite! And who are you, to blame them? After all, they will have told you, from their ‘77 logo on! (They grew up, in-between, perhaps it should be your turn after all?)