Dan I use high end / high price products. I use them because of the features that aren't in cheaper products. Do I fall into that 1%.
I think that is pretty low, what about all the designers who use Adobe, Quark, Microsoft products, like myself, most of which are Mac users. I do agree a lot of people buy expensive products without realising there are cheaper or free alternatives that would suit their needs. I wrote an article on Office Suites for LowEndMac pointing out this very idea. http://lowendmac.com/ed/royal/08sr/free-office-alternatives.html If you need the features in high end software then go for it, but you should check out free or cheaper alternatives - they may suit your needs and save you money. Simon On 2 Dec 2008, at 21:49, Dan wrote: > > At 1:07 PM -0800 12/2/2008, MIKO's Support, Design and Development > Services wrote: >> >> Apple provides Pages with iWork. Pages works great for me! >> iWork is not very expensive. >> >> Adobe provides the VERY expensive inDesign. > > SOP in any market, although Adobe makes it worse. Most people that > buy those high-end / expensive products use only those features that > would be found in the less expensive products. Those markets depends > on the supidity of their customers to survive. > > There are a few people, probably 1% of the market, that actually > use/need the "advanced" features. Of course, if the market was > actually targetted to just them, they'd never buy the software as it > would cost 10billion quatloos per copy at those volumes. > > MS Word vs AppleWorks, heck... MS Word vs TeachText is a great > example. > > heh. I ran into an interesting marketing coup the other day. A new > Mac user that was perfectly happy with the cheaper product, MS Works > (not sure of the product name) on his Windoze laptop, absolutely > insisted the only equivalent was full-on MS Office ($400 ?) on his > new Mac. He was SHOCKED to see what Pages and *cough* NeoOffice > could do. > > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth > > > > --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
