I wonder if the MLO developers would be interested to learn - not that it can be precisely measured - how many users would fall behind or move on to other apps if the application become focused on teams and cloud services. I'd only ask that they give it a thought.
After all, not *everyone* manages a team of people (I'd guess there are way more freelancers than team managers in the world), and not *everyone* works oput of their smartphone. I have switched fairly recently to MLO from a competing commercial to-do manager product - one with a somewhat different slant than MLO, but similarly polished, mature and functional. Its development was stalled for about two years as the developers made a web-based clone of their application, and when they did release a new desktop version, it was rewritten in Delphi .Net, which means it now takes about 30 seconds to load and consumes obscene amounts of memory. That's when I jumped ship. And just as I registered MLO Professional, I found out it's now on the cloud as well. I'm truly puzzled to see how many people seem willing to trust their personal, often sensitive data to unknown servers and their maintenance crews. Or switch to unending subscription payments. Privacy concerns aside, even Google has been known to discontinue its services, and not a week passes without a lesser company dropping a product (most recently, delicio.us). All that, plus the awfully inconvenient, slow and keyboard-unfriendly web-based interfaces can never hold a candle to a carefully designed desk-side app like MLO. In my line of work (software localization) I've seen a number of trade-specific products move from the desktop to the web, and it's always been a turn for the worse. Without exception. (And yes, I use Gmail, but exclusively for non-critical mailing lists such as this one :-) My personal and work-related communication is secure on my desktop.) So to end my little rant, I do hope MLO maintains a strong separation between the desktop product and all its other incarnations. Personally, I'll go back to Notepad before I put any of my data in someone else's clud service, paid or free. marek On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 23:37, Fletcher <[email protected]> wrote: > FOR ALL OF THOSE SUPPORTING THIS: > > Please vote up and/or comment on this UserVoice entry: > > > http://mlo.uservoice.com/forums/9235-general/suggestions/1470601-mean-lean-organization-mlo-for-teams-groups > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en.
