From: "Lynn Fredricks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 13:59:12 -0800
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.
That worldview is about 10 years out of date.
These days, honesty is really paying off more. Look at google and
many other big sites, that didn't get there through flawed
idealogies. But through word of mouth.
It's said that even in job seeking, 50% of the market is through word
of mouth, and that's also the *Better* 50% with higher quality jobs,
people you get on with better, higher wages.
I'd be surprised if even in traditional advertising for products, 10
years ago or so, it wasn't a similar ratio.
Developers I think are highly "word of mouth" oriented, more than the
average user. Thus, new features won't really help.
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