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Not necessarily... If I said MS-Word, would you decide to go out and create a word processor, probably not since the market is pretty much a done deal.

I get what you mean, but why not? Having a well-established, dominant player doesn't mean there's no opportunity to make a living solving similar problems. "Word" is a huge target, it covers so many use cases that it's possible to focus on a few of them and provide a tailored solution that enough people find valuable. This was the status quo when Google Docs was being developed as well, and OpenOffice for that matter.

By and large the apps that are bad will be in markets where the purchasing decision makers are not buying based upon the quality of the app.

In which case you could create a better competing app and it wouldn't matter.

> That's a fairly lazy question, and I cannot see how it would really start a good conversation.

And yet, 25 minutes and 42 comments.

In my defence when I replied there were 3 throwaway replies and nothing through provoking.

I do stand corrected though :-)