Nextcloud is a platform
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The same pattern shows up every time a software category goes through its platform moment. WordPress in 2011. Salesforce a few years earlier. Atlassian after that. The iPhone, in the consumer space, before any of them. Each one started life as a product. Each one became a platform. The companies that managed the transition own their category two decades later. The ones that did not are footnotes.
I think Nextcloud is in front of that transition right now, and I do not think the field around it has noticed yet.