The SaaS apocalypse will be decided by inertia, not by AI, sgit.ai

The SaaS apocalypse has not happened yet, and the market has already declared it cancelled once. It remains a very strong possibility, argued here with data rather than vibes. Most users were never happy, most features were never used, and most licences sit idle, because success bred inertia and inertia bred lock-in. Now anybody can brief the software they actually want, and the portability, APIs and schemas that SaaS companies refused to build are precisely what an agent needs. It will be decided by inertia, not by AI, because AI is available to both sides: the incumbents have the same models as the newcomers, plus more data, more engineers and more money, and if the technology were the deciding factor they would already have won. Nokia when the mobile phone arrived had nothing to protect, and moved. Nokia when the iPhone arrived had fifteen years of success to protect, and did not. Which side of that path each SaaS provider ends up on will be settled by where it sits on the evolution axis and how much it has to protect, which is why the newcomers, not the incumbents, are the ones to watch.

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