>We ended here for pure business reasons, and not as a convenience for end users.
But it's users who are creating these business reasons. Many people, myself included, simply don't experience native software as universally superior as platform purists would have it. So we're not paying for it.
And no you can't simply blame employers either. They may not care much about what their employees find more convenient or more beautiful, but they sure care about productivity and TCO.
Resource constraints are not a capitalist conspiracy. Free software suffers from the same issues and trade-offs between implementing actual features and re-writing software for six different platforms and UI technologies.
A choice free of any and all resource constraints cannot exist.
But it's users who are creating these business reasons. Many people, myself included, simply don't experience native software as universally superior as platform purists would have it. So we're not paying for it.
And no you can't simply blame employers either. They may not care much about what their employees find more convenient or more beautiful, but they sure care about productivity and TCO.
Resource constraints are not a capitalist conspiracy. Free software suffers from the same issues and trade-offs between implementing actual features and re-writing software for six different platforms and UI technologies.
A choice free of any and all resource constraints cannot exist.