Well, in my opinion a nice way to compensate initial costs of software is a period of time for free updates and nicely priced updates afterwards. By the way, after buying IDEA you have 8 months of free updates. What if I purchase an update after 10 months or so. Do I get another 8 months of free updates then or does this count for full versions only?
Michael > -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Im > Auftrag von Chris Merrill > Gesendet: Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2001 20:15 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: Re: [Eap-list] OFFTOPIC: Idea for personal use > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ Eap-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list
