Not very pragmatic from where I'm sitting. I don't see why we can't have it both ways -- give MakeMusic feedback and strong complaints when necessary, AND use plugins that do the job better. If Finale starts incorporating features from third party plugin developers, great! They were still well worth the cost.
-Randolph Peters
At 10:06 PM -0500 12/30/03, David H. Bailey wrote:
Which removed a huge financial burden and crush of user-complaints.
Ain't it great when a developer off-loads development tasks and then makes us glad?!?
Reminds me a lot of Tom Sawyer and that danged picket fence!
They did NOT, however, lower the price of Finale to compensate for us having to spend extra to get those features which should be part of the program, now, did they?
Ain't the computer marketplace just grand?
I can see economics and marketing classes three centuries from now:
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Here is how the free marketplace worked, and you can clearly see the supply/demand interplay, and how the companies that survived were the ones with the best products that worked properly and offered all that the customer wanted at a price they wanted to pay.
Now on this side, we see the computer/software marketplace at the same point in history. Pay particular attention to how sometimes the supply/demand interplay worked, but only with hardware. With software, it didn't seem to matter how many people bought Microsoft Office Suite, that little old price never seemed to waggle a bit, did it? And interestingly enough, people who had already paid the original price and then every year paid another hefty amount of money were actually GLAD when the whole plug-in architecture was introduced, so now they could pay for the abilty to do their OWN programming, wasn't that nice. Or, they could purchase plug-ins from nice users who also, by the way, had become competent programmers themselves. So the manufacturers didn't have to worry about making the software live up to the users' expectations, they could simply shoot a new version out the door, with only the barest of new features, enough to get most users to buy it, knowing that the plug-in writers would get all the really important functions worked out.
It ended up that all that was left of the development team were the marketers -- they'd preannounce new features that weren't included, but the new version's PDK would have all the right hooks so the plug-in writers could write the plug-ins to implement the new features. All the programmers were fired and became plug-in writers.
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Randolph Peters wrote:
At 11:44 AM +1100 12/31/03, helgesen wrote:
Thanks Aaron, but it leaves me wondering why the basic Finale doesn't do these things. And while I am totally in awe of folks like Tobias and Robert Patterson who create these brilliant plug ins, why should they need to?- obviously because of deficiency in the basic Finale program.
Well, you can wait for MakeMusic to add features and fix bugs which may never happen, or you can get a very responsive turnaround with Robert and Tobias. I've emailed them both about small bugs in their plugins in the past and have gotten fixes sometimes within hours.
Finale opened the door to this kind of service and improved set of features when they opened up the plugin development to others.
-Randolph Peters
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