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Much of the corporate and industrial world runs on software that is sold in boxes and installed on the local machine. This is doubly true when you go beyond standard $10/mo consumer tools and in the range of thousands of dollars per license and beyond.

The move to the webapp model you describe is slowly happening, but it will be a very long time (if ever) before it can cover 100% of software use cases. Try telling someone in your accounting department they they have to use the web version of Excel moving forward and watch them quit on the spot.




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