Wangjammer5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > FWIW, IDEA is really great. However I do not feel that many individuals > are happy to pay that kind of money for an IDE, especially when you can > refresh your eval key quite easily. After all, at the end of the day you > can always go back to "vi" and "javac" for free.
Most of those people won't buy it...no matter how cheap it is... because they're cheap and/or lazy....they will use whatever they can for free. > My point? I think everyone would sell a lot more software if it was much > cheaper. You can buy a computer game for $50 or less (which is too much > for a game!). I think that's about the maximum the bulk of people can > stomach for software. The market disagrees with you...they are buying LOTS of $50 games. > Why do you think half the world has a ripped off copy of Adobe Photoshop > on their hard disk? Because they are dishonest, cheap and lazy. They wouldn't buy it if it was $1...if they could still get it for free. > Isn't it a case of 100,000 users @ $50 rather than $1,000 @ $200 ? You're assuming that lowering the prices would raise the number of sales...but if they could get a disabled version of something else for free...they will use it, instead of IDEA. Even you think that $50 is too much. IDEA is already VERY competetively priced. By your logic...if they made it $1, they would sell 1,000,000 copies. Not likely. I think wise move is to let them continue to download free keys. Eventually they might buy it, when they have the money. If not, at least they will tell their friends about it. Chris _______________________________________________ Eap-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list
