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Originally Posted by everalm
Organisations don't really care if something like this costs £700 ea, off the top of my head couple of reasons
1. The cost is amortised over a 3 year period
2. The savings associated with reduction in print costs
3. Ability to perform on site, near real time updates be it blueprints, case write ups, client notes etc
4. Ability to build effective version management and control into said updates
Just on those 4 use cases alone an org could effectively pay for the nominal cap-ex in a man month alone via personnel time savings
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Not only I agree with you: I tried that already five years ago.
But there is at least a further factor, against: friction.
And to win friction, all the wrinkles must disappear that make consolidated processes appear better.
One example of what is needed for corporate adoption: a flawless, quick, print-to-device process. I understand, again randomly picking, that Onyx' export of annotations is still not flawless?
(What I tried years ago in the business context failed because the product had a few flaws, e.g. bad ghosting. The producing company then switched to LCD.)
I am an early adopter oftentimes, but in an Organization you exercise extra care (it depends on the Organization really). That the cost is mature is an instance of the maturity of the whole product.
EDIT: and in fact, you mention «via personnel time savings» as the cost justification.
The sought approach is evident: where I work, also because of a very marked conservative tendency, it would be much more probable to see everyone given an iPad ("Nobody was ever fired for buying Apple in the Tens").