> So let me get this straight. I've been a faithful customer for over > 15 years, buying every single BBEdit upgrade. And yet brand new users > can buy the product for the exact same price in the AppStore that I > can "upgrade" for? That sucks.
Really? You’re *really* going to get indignant because other people should pay the same price you’ve been paying for 15 years? You’re really going to infer that this “act” by Barebones is somehow going to tarnish your “faithful” customer status? What I really want to say is: the amount of new users, at this price, will heavily outweigh your “taking my toys and going home”. Good riddance, et. al., et. al. Personally, I think this is a good move. And not because more people can use it or because Barebones has been raping my wallet for years (they haven’t) or because I think other software exists which equal the quality of BBEdit. It’s a different environment now. The 99 cents of the iTunes App Store has turned the software-buying audience into a group of people who don’t need to actually think about purchasing software anymore. When something is less than a candy bar, it’s becomes a daily impulse not a chin-scratcher. This mentality is going to accelerate to the desktop pretty quickly with the enforced Mac App Store, with most price points being less than 10 USD. Barebones isn’t the first, of course - you’ve likely seen the hubbub over the new Final Cut Pro. Apple isn’t marketing toward the pro market anymore, and in the public’s eye, there’s no comparing a “text editor” at $125 to even something like iMovie at $14.99. It’s a perception problem, and I don’t think BBEdit would last long in an post-MAS market at $125. -- Morbus Iff ( they should rename controlled chaos to morbus droppings ) http://www.disobey.com/ and http://www.disobey.com/wiki/ twitter: @morbusiff / skype: morbusiff / irc.freenode.net, Morbus An O'Reilly author and blogger: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/779 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>
