On May 13, 2007, at 9:50 AM, Bob Keeney wrote: > Geeze, and based on the comments from earlier, no one would want to > pay anything more than $29.95 for a full featured grid - whatever the > definition of a grid is.
No one's complained about paying for a plugin control that does what is needed, so where did you get that idea? While I personally find the MBS plugins to be the bargain of the century, I would pay much more for what Christian brings to the table with that set. > Keep in mind, that the controls Suite from Component One (that has an > awesome grid for VB6) is nearly $1200 for a YEARLY subscription PER > developer. If I had 1000 users willing to commit to that size of > suite someone (maybe even me!) would do it. But, you also need to take into account the scale of return that RB developers face. While it is true that RB offers Windows compilation, their market share is miniscule (no offense, Geoff) compared to the other tools out there for Windows. If I'm developing an application that potentially has over 400 million buyers, I'm a bit more apt to pay more for my development tools than if I've got the much smaller potential that is Mac. Additionally, outside of Pro Apps, Mac users expect to pay $69 for their Mac apps with $99 being the extreme limit for a REALLY important app. We've done serious market research on this and the sweet spot for a Mac application aimed at the desktop is $69 MSRP with a $50 street price. Granted, the business side of Mac will pay more if you can get a relationship going, but that is an even smaller part of the Mac space. Don't believe that? Look at iLife, Pages and Keynote; even Apple recognizes that pricing is important in this space. > But alas, there's too many cheapskates using RB. I don't believe that you are qualifying this statement properly. I personally know quite a few RB developers that have no problem paying for tools that they can depend on to achieve the end result being sought after. Tim -- Tim Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
