About once a year, I get this odd desire to fire up my install of a competitor's Bible study software. I couldn't tell you why, I've never purchased a single book or software upgrade from them and truthfully I have a hard time even figuring out the basics of navigation within the program. But alas, I always end up firing it up just to poke around. This year, I got that weird inkling again and went to fire it up… "Your trial is expired, please purchase version 14 to continue". I thought, "hmm weird, I don't even remember signing up for a trial, but I should be able to sign in and poke around version 13 still". Nope, for some reason I couldn't even poke around v13. I probably could have tinkered with it a while and figured out what I was doing wrong, but I didn't really have a reason to be there in the first place. I got the thought to browse their forum a bit and see what was new, I was surprised to see that the forum is (for all intents and purposes) gone and replaced with a new forum. I poked around a bit, seemed like the same ol' so I fired Logos back up and ended up in some theological rabbit hole or another.
This did get me thinking though, "I wonder if it's in the cards for Logos to acquire another software company in the future?" I mean, realistically there's not too much competition at this point (not a knock toward the competitors, or competitor I should say), so I'm not entirely sure an acquisition like the WS one would benefit anyone too much. I'm sure there's some publishing rights out there that would be appreciated, but in terms of software we've kind of hit this point where there's not any groundbreaking developments outside of Logos in my opinion. Who knows, maybe some implementation of AI may change the whole landscape in the coming years, but I honestly can't think of a single thing that I would like to be able to do that I cannot do already.
I'd like to ask you all though, would you put your money on another Logos acquisition in the future? If so, what do you see that looking like? Personally, I wouldn't mind if Logos acquired Olive Tree and used that for the backbone of a simple, reading-oriented mobile app that integrates into our existing library. I'd love to have a simple Logos similar to the old Faithlife Study Bible app. I'm sure my fellow eink users would agree, but I know this wouldn't be a financially viable ask outside of an acquisition.
As a side note, is the other app paid-only now? I can only assume I was doing something wrong but didn't have the time or mind space to figure out what.