uoba
Re: member
On the nose, Dris... I couldn't have put it better myself.
Concerning alternatives, in theory, having the choice and freedom to to choose an alternative is great, but in reality we are dealing with peoples time, and that, as any business will tell you, is the most costly of expenses. The majority of people will go with the flow because they just don't have the time to even consider alternatives (unless there is a serious flaw in the current setup).
A design studio with 20 designers are not going to jump ship from Photoshop because they have to pay subscription for a great and essential product. The price would be minimal compared to time spent by those 20, to train up and get through the initial learning period of a new piece of software.
And, unfortunately, this would be the case particularly when considering a new OS. Okay, so there are organisations, as you mentioned that have started to realise the potential of alternatives (particularly OS's), but these are mainly governmental organisations (plus, the alternatives always seem to be a Windows looking distro of Linux!)
With IE (was this what the thread was about
) people don't need much more from browser than is alread offered. So why change. Thankfully, Mac users are generally an uneasy lot and are more willing than most to try alternatives (because we are accustomed to already doing so by choosing the Mac OS coupled with the fact that Apple make it easy to do so).
Concerning alternatives, in theory, having the choice and freedom to to choose an alternative is great, but in reality we are dealing with peoples time, and that, as any business will tell you, is the most costly of expenses. The majority of people will go with the flow because they just don't have the time to even consider alternatives (unless there is a serious flaw in the current setup).
A design studio with 20 designers are not going to jump ship from Photoshop because they have to pay subscription for a great and essential product. The price would be minimal compared to time spent by those 20, to train up and get through the initial learning period of a new piece of software.
And, unfortunately, this would be the case particularly when considering a new OS. Okay, so there are organisations, as you mentioned that have started to realise the potential of alternatives (particularly OS's), but these are mainly governmental organisations (plus, the alternatives always seem to be a Windows looking distro of Linux!)
With IE (was this what the thread was about
) people don't need much more from browser than is alread offered. So why change. Thankfully, Mac users are generally an uneasy lot and are more willing than most to try alternatives (because we are accustomed to already doing so by choosing the Mac OS coupled with the fact that Apple make it easy to do so).