captcorajus
Explorer
I'm going to guess that you have never actually run a (real) business. Operators of a business have a fiduciary responsibility to the owners (private or public) to ensure the profitability of owner investment. Problem is there are two sides to the ledger, and screaming about how foolish a company is for ignoring one side (income) while you yourself ignore the other (expenditure) illustrates your failure to grasp the point: If a new "source of revenue" costs the company more to bring to market, then it's not a "source of revenue" but a "source of financial liability". If a new "source of revenue" doesn't have a sizable enough margin to justify the investiture of capital, then it isn't a "source of potential revenue" but a "source of potential financial liability".
Obviously WoTC and it's upstream owners have decided that the profits margins are too thin to be worth the investment or non-existent.
One thing about ASSume.
You would assume incorrectly. I am using my own personal success in running first a corporate business for 10 years, and then my own personal business for the last 10 years, thus 20 years experience as my assessment of WOTC's failure here.
I am also using my knowledge of exactly how digital apps through apple are written and marketed, which in reality very little cost involved.
We are talking about DATA organizational apps here, not reinventing the wheel. The apps have already been written, and the cost to use them is nominal in
that even a 'start up' can afford to utilize the software engine for their own commercial apps.
Any well versed scripter can manage this application as what we are talking about is data manipulation. The equivalent of writing an excel spread sheet, and giving it a pretty skin.
Furthermore, DIGITAL is the way the industry, and business in general is moving. EVERYBODY has an 'app'. This is called a TREND. You might want to look it up, as its a very important term when it comes to running a business. Its probably the single most important business trend in history, which only further serves to underscore WOTC's utter failure to find a revenue model that capitalizes on it.
You would seriously have to be a complete WOTC apologist to not recognize this.
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