my 2ct here:
I see NC being torn between 2 loversā¦ On one hand they NEEED some companies paying for professional support on the other hand, at least that was my impression through last 3 years here on the forum, they had never forgot about their community. Never.
And thusā¦ this dance on two volcanos has the power of getting NC too diverse in the end. Like bigger companies or even governements with 10s of thousands of users have a different approach to a software like NC than the common home-user. Of course both want to get away from MS and Google and Apple and what not spying on their data, selling them.
But the usecases for those two user-groups are very different. While bigger companies usually wonāt hesitate to buy more hardware and manpower (if needed) to make their systems run like butter in the sun the common homeuser might think twice about buying new hardware ā¦
So right now NC tries to be bothā¦ made for big companies and made for homeusers.
So for me NC20 and what I got from it so far is another step towards homeusers (they might outnumber companie which bought support from NC GmbH by far but usually they wonāt gain NC any income). Why? Easyā¦ because they just try to be the missing link between several existing servicesā¦ Which could be important. For homeusers. They even opened a new API (or better: defined it better) for being ready for more community(-driven) apps.
No company would need the dashboard since all of them would have their own and NC being jusdt one shark in a sea of different fishes.
So for me itās resonable to say that NC spends money and effort on trying to stay relevant for homeusers as well.
Someone (@rakekniven) asked in the beginning: where do you see NC in 2025? I wouldnāt be surprised to see NC going the way of becoming more and more like an own operating system (the new dashboard for me hints into that directionā¦ since it was made as being a new daily landing page for every (home-)user. Easy to install, easy to maintain, being the missing link between several internet-services, being focussed on privacy and safe sharing.
Of course thatās a long road to go. And if they only manage to go there half way it would be pretty much, already.
I am ready for it.
NB: I donāt really understand why some of you seem to have cramps about NC trying to get MS-Office users? NC doesnāt want ppl to buy MS-licencesā¦ not at allā¦ but they are acknowledging that there is a world outside driven by MS-products. So why not integrated them in a way that ppl could communicate with each other and make the most of both worlds?
NB2: Pls take into consideration that Iām no insider to and am not working for NC GmbH.