Comment by Someone
13 hours ago
If you want to drink your own wine in a restaurant, you have to pay for that, too.
This isn’t much different; there still are plenty of non-Google options for creating presentations to choose from that do allow using your own font.
If SaaS is a restaurant, what's software I purchase? A personal robot chef with an infinite ingredient supply, no charge for using my own wine?
I think that supports the "Where did things go this wrong?" sentiment.
The analogies with physical businesses never make sense. Running an application on your own computer is nothing like eating at a restaurant. Just because the software is obtained from a server somewhere doesn't mean it's like going to a physical place to eat. Browsing to www.company.com is not akin to walking into a company's physical store. You're not "there." There is no "there."
>If you want to drink your own wine in a restaurant, you have to pay for that, too.
Depends on the place. Tons of restaurants in New Jersey encourage you to bring your own wine bottle and don't charge a "corking fee".