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People get upset if you try to charge them a monthly fee for a desktop app. Yet they are happy to rent a SaaS solution.

Also, lower support costs. Making your app work on everyone's computer is surprisingly annoying, because some of your users will have Trojans, damaged system files, or an aggressive IT department.

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>>People get upset if you try to charge them a monthly fee for a desktop app. Yet they are happy to rent a SaaS solution.

So don't. Set a fair price and sell me a license. I don't want you in my checking account. I don't want you looking over my shoulder. I find the privileges which purveyor's of web/phone apps have arrogated to themselves to be creepy for the most part.

Then, again I'm pretty sure I've turned into a grumpy old man.

Aggressive IT department will block your web app too ;)

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