RE: Do We Truly Own Our Devices Anymore? What's Going On With The Tech Industry?
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Freedom comes with a price, I suppose.
Free markets created some tech giants which are more or less monopolists and therefore can do whatever they want.
Although better, more privacy aware solutions around, we tend not using them, due to many reasons. Convenience, or better said, inconvenience, is one of them.
Freedom allows us to decide what we use and what we don't use. But, we cannot always stay away from what we do not want to use, I know that as well.
If we dont like something, we shall act upon, ie not use a service or product. That is the only way corporates will change. When lets day 50% of the O365 users step away for eg OpenOffice, Libreoffice, or one of those open source equivalents to O365, then I am darn sure Microsoft will act and changes whatever they need to change to increase its user base again.
But, people dont act, at least most people dont act. They just continue to use whatever is made easiest for them. That said, any alternative, espcially the open source altewrnatives, shall finally spend much more time on UI and UX, since that is usually what is lacking. As we can see with many tools and frontends here at HIVE. And they are not all open source as well :) Focus on tech, instead of focussing on the customer journey creates services that aren't used by many.
You nailed it. In a perfect world I'd love to see:
That list could go on and on. That's just a start.
We have the technology and great alternatives. I do agree though, most open source project lack a bit in the UI and UX category. Still the trade-off is usually worth it.
Thanks for the awesome comment!