> a technical solution to something that’s not a technical problem
Why does a problem have to be 'technical' to have a technical solution? Skype, Wikipedia, Amazon, eBay...pretty much every major technical product I can think of solves non-technical problems, almost by definition.
> But nobody is going to. Because it makes no business sense to do so.
You are talking about a general trend as if it's ubiquitous. Yes there are strong business reasons why most software vendors have shifted to SaaS, but that doesn't obviate the fact that some users have problems for which local software is a better fit. The local software market may be smaller, but it exists, and it's incorrect to say it makes "no business sense" for anyone to operate in it.
New technology can be a prerequisite to solve certain non-technical problems, but it’s not the technology itself that solves the problem. Wikipedia is a good example. It probably wouldn’t work without the technology, but just building a wiki platform is not enough to get people to volunteer to collaborate on writing high quality encyclopedic articles. Arguably, the vast majority of the work that has gone into creating Wikipedia has not been technical.
Why does a problem have to be 'technical' to have a technical solution? Skype, Wikipedia, Amazon, eBay...pretty much every major technical product I can think of solves non-technical problems, almost by definition.
> But nobody is going to. Because it makes no business sense to do so.
You are talking about a general trend as if it's ubiquitous. Yes there are strong business reasons why most software vendors have shifted to SaaS, but that doesn't obviate the fact that some users have problems for which local software is a better fit. The local software market may be smaller, but it exists, and it's incorrect to say it makes "no business sense" for anyone to operate in it.