Where do you buy your groceries? Do you go to a guy who sells tomatoes and then drive to the other side of town to get apples from a different guy?
Most of us just go to a market and buy all our groceries there.
Now tell me, Mr. Customer, what is the name of the guy who grows your tomatoes? What is the name of the farm? Do you consider yourself his customer or the customer of the market? If the tomatoes taste bad, who will you complain to?
Who are you loyal to? If the market starts buying tomatoes from a different guy ... will you shrug your shoulders and buy the new tomatoes ... or will you drive across town to get the original tomatoes?
I'm sure you see my point. The very same thing is happening to the software market.
Yes, we will make more money. But there is more to life than money!
We will no longer have any customers. We will become employees of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc.
Mind you, not employees with benefits, no. Independent contractors who are "hired" and "fired" at whim.
Again, yes, we can all make more money. But if money is all we wanted, we would have chosen to work for the big boys to begin with!
This movement toward centralized markets is the fundamental reason I chose to go into web development and avoided app development like the plague. Each part of my stack is easily replaceable and my customers are my customers. I don't care if I make less money. I have the freedom to see my vision come to life and to see it being put to work by people I know and who know me.
Funny enough, the same push-back is happening in the food biz. The entire local food movement is based on a fairly similar desire.
>Funny enough, the same push-back is happening in the food biz. The entire local food movement is based on a fairly similar desire.
You do not have to go that far in your analogy. The music business is a great example of how more and more musicians are inclined to be "independent" of their monopolistic overlords.
Where do you buy your groceries? Do you go to a guy who sells tomatoes and then drive to the other side of town to get apples from a different guy?
Most of us just go to a market and buy all our groceries there.
Now tell me, Mr. Customer, what is the name of the guy who grows your tomatoes? What is the name of the farm? Do you consider yourself his customer or the customer of the market? If the tomatoes taste bad, who will you complain to?
Who are you loyal to? If the market starts buying tomatoes from a different guy ... will you shrug your shoulders and buy the new tomatoes ... or will you drive across town to get the original tomatoes?
I'm sure you see my point. The very same thing is happening to the software market.
Yes, we will make more money. But there is more to life than money!
We will no longer have any customers. We will become employees of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc.
Mind you, not employees with benefits, no. Independent contractors who are "hired" and "fired" at whim.
Again, yes, we can all make more money. But if money is all we wanted, we would have chosen to work for the big boys to begin with!
This movement toward centralized markets is the fundamental reason I chose to go into web development and avoided app development like the plague. Each part of my stack is easily replaceable and my customers are my customers. I don't care if I make less money. I have the freedom to see my vision come to life and to see it being put to work by people I know and who know me.
Funny enough, the same push-back is happening in the food biz. The entire local food movement is based on a fairly similar desire.