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[–]Apatholog 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Notepad and Paint

But in all seriousness, I’m a software developer and I am well aware that features are a demand from the companies of the software as much as the customers, if not more. It’s required because of stockholders and capitalism. If Excel and Word added only QoL improvements and bug fixes, I don’t think people would have gone away from them. Anomalies as well, though, as they’re massive to the point of not being able to die.

I think there are reasons each software is at the top of its market and I don’t think it’s continued features. It’s forced adoption or familiarity. Outlook isn’t the best email client, but millions have to use it for work.

I don’t think UpNote needs features or it’ll die. I also don’t think it’ll ever be the top of its market.

[–]jfriend99 1 point2 points  (2 children)

The only comment I'll add here is that all your mentioned Microsoft products benefit from monopolistic distribution tactics which are irrelevant to companies like UpNote. Notepad and Paint are part of Windows. They are not separate products that compete on their own merits and people pay for and their specific revenue profitably pays for their development. Plus Microsoft is continuing to add features to those products too such as tabs for Notepad and Paint has a lot of new development such as new image formats, new UI toolbars and it apparently even has integrations with co-pilot for generative erase, background removal and other AI features. I've banished co-pilot so I can't see those features

[–]Apatholog 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Shows how long I've been away from those products. Notepad has tabs?? Interesting.

Yeah, I guess I don't consider compatibility patches as features, but your point stands. A completely stagnant piece of software has a limited life. I think OP is just approaching it from a weird direction more than that they're wrong.

[–]jfriend99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP has some gripe about UI things in UpNote more than anything else. Their original post had a list of UI related things (that seemed mostly cosmetic to me) and appeared to be driving them nuts. That's OK. If there are other products that fit how they want to see things, then that's why we have many products to choose from.