Of the top of my head.... a possible reason is that higher prices
respond to the amount of illegal software used in Europe in comparison
to the US... I could be wrong, but the system seems far more controlled
over there, and there are less companies using pirated copies... now, I
don't see how this measures could improve the situation over here, but
the logic might be to get some compensation, plus pressuring "legal"
companies to act against "ilegal" companies in order to expect lower
exchange rates... still, I don't think it's a particulary smart
measure... specially when developing budgets are usually much lower in
Europe than in the US...
Cheers...
John Dowdell escribió:
Mike Mountain wrote:
For those prices it would literally be cheaper to fly out to the US
to buy
it.
Adobe has FUBAR'd these prices - we demand an explanation - but who
from?
For what it's worth, I had been pushing before launch for better
information about the reasons for regional pricing disparities, but I
did not succeed at doing so.
I suspect there are reasonable explanations, because Macromedia,
Adobe, and most other software houses show similar differences across
national boundaries, but I don't yet know the authoritative reasons
myself, sorry.
(My suspicion is that it's due to decisionmaking being both at the
central and at the regional level... I think each region is
responsible for its own prices and these are shaped, but not dictated,
by the main office, so there's no single owner of pricing worldwide...
that's just my best current guess of why I haven't been able to gain
traction in getting this documented, though.)
What I'm doing now is trying to collect similar reactions for my
partners, to show that this is indeed a frequently-asked question, and
one that deserves a definitive explanation on the Adobe site. (The
FlashCoders web archive is not viewable to non-subscribers, so I'm
snipping threads to give a flavor of the whole.)
So... my apologies for the confusion. I think it's definitely a
legitimate question, and one that I'm working to get addressed.
tx,
jd
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