When the cost to ship trash code trends toward zero, then there will not be value in shipping trash code. Companies will need to focus on software that is actually competitive (in a qualitative way) because otherwise their customers will just self-vend the slop code.
Based on my time in the corporate world, the new meta will probably be about how well you can hide the slop in your SaaS until you have enough of their data in your servers to make migration impractical.
When the cost to ship trash code trends toward zero, then there will not be value in shipping trash code. Companies will need to focus on software that is actually competitive (in a qualitative way) because otherwise their customers will just self-vend the slop code.
Based on my time in the corporate world, the new meta will probably be about how well you can hide the slop in your SaaS until you have enough of their data in your servers to make migration impractical.