> On Jan 2, 2007, at 4:31 PM, Daniel Stenning wrote: > > > You may be right, but in "REALity" RS simply has to add new > features > > in order to justify charging existing users for the > upgrade program. > > No that is not correct. It Is not like CodeWarrior was adding > a huge pile of features from version to version, often very > little was added, just minor improvements here and there, and > yet users were paying a lot every year to stay up to date. > > You would be surprised how many people pay for increased > stability and over all features.
Daniel has a point. Development tools are difficult to promote and new features not only drive new customers to find it but also drive the promotional machine - the press. As an experienced developer, stability is critical for you and you know exactly what it is worth to you to get a bug fixed that you need to ship your product. The problem is that there is the happiness represented by reocurring customers renewing at 50% of a license price vs how many more new, full licenses that can be sold by putting more splash into the release. I have a project that because of how permissions work (I havent checked recently, but last I heard it was considered a bug of MacOS X and not REALbasic), I cannot ship a MacOS X version. But the Windows version works just fine, and it works fine after being compiled with REALbasic 5.5. Maybe it will break under Vista and Ill be forced to upgrade. But there's really no reason to at this point and besides, REAL doesn't want my money anyway - they'd much rather I go away. Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Paradigma Software, Inc Joining Worlds of Information Deploy True Client-Server Database Solutions Royalty Free with Valentina Developer Network http://www.paradigmasoft.com _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
