It honestly doesn’t take much more for the snowball effect to take hold.
Could be interesting to see how proprietary platforms respond to increased adoption. Maybe they’ll start removing their ads and surveillance, or even giving their operating systems away altogether (minus the source code, of course.)
May be similar to the 3d software world where autodesk created a monopoly and could charge around 5k USD for something like Maya, and then go the adobe route and only rent once innovation dies off. Only when Blender started getting more hype and attention did autodesk start offering cheaper indie versions and licenses.
We’re getting up there.
It honestly doesn’t take much more for the snowball effect to take hold.
Could be interesting to see how proprietary platforms respond to increased adoption. Maybe they’ll start removing their ads and surveillance, or even giving their operating systems away altogether (minus the source code, of course.)
May be similar to the 3d software world where autodesk created a monopoly and could charge around 5k USD for something like Maya, and then go the adobe route and only rent once innovation dies off. Only when Blender started getting more hype and attention did autodesk start offering cheaper indie versions and licenses.
Windows is already basically free using the user as a product
And yet they still charge people for it.