On May 15, 2007, at 12:50 AM, Giovanni wrote: > I think that you are missing the point entirely. A product pricing > scheme is determine by many factors some of them been availability, > complexity, aesthetics and deadlines.
One of the most important factors -- for any product including plugins for or applications we make with RB -- is "what the market will bear." When I was a kid, there was no way in hell people would have paid for water. Now people don't even blink putting $1.50 into a Coke machine to get a bottle of water. Why would people pay the same for water as they would any pop or juice in the machine? I don't know. (I certainly don't do it.) But today they will. Forty years ago they wouldn't. So 40 years ago, you didn't see bottled water everywhere. Now you do. Why is the Linux Standard version of RB free? Because that's what the Linux market will bear. Once word of RB spreads and it gains an intrinsic value among Linux programmers, that may change. For the small (one man) shop, pricing can be the most difficult part of putting a product out. We don't have a marketing department researching this for us. Price a product too low and people may not take you seriously. Price it too high and you may price yourself out of the market. Kirk ----------------------------------------------- REALbasic Professional 2007r1 MacBook Core Duo, Mac OS X 10.4.9 _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
