Thanks for sharing. Hmm.. no wonder salesmen dress like rocket scientists !!
take care, Muthu Ramadoss. http://linkedin.com/in/tellibitz +91.98403.48914 http://androidrocks.googlecode.com - Android Consulting. On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Keith Wiley <[email protected]> wrote: > > My program was free for a few months. With the latest set of new > features, I split it into a lite and a pro version, just uploaded last > night. There were, admittedly, a few hitches in the conversion which > scared people into thinking they lost their data (and there is almost > no way for me to communicate with them and help them fix the problem > and find their data). At any rate, aside from comments complaining > about seemingly lost data (it was just moved, not lost, I swear, but I > have no way to TELL them, thanks market for nothing!!!) there were > also a few complaints about the new lite version's limitations. The > drunkards had gotten sloshed at the trough of my free version and were > incredulous that I would now limit the new lite version (with all its > new features) and charge for the new pro version. > > ...This in spite of the fact that I explicitly offered the old version > as a download through my website for any users who wanted to revert to > the older, unlimited version, and explained this fact on the splash > screen and in the help document of the new lite version. > > Lessons learned: If you give your program away for free initially, and > then try to charge later as you add features and deem the program's > growing sophistication worthy of compensation, people hate you like > the plague. Additionally, even if you provide a way to revert to the > old unlimited version, thus effectively easing the new version from > history with regard to any one user, people don't care, they still > hate you even though they can get their old functionality back. They > resent you for the very *notion* that you would start charging for a > previously free product. > > On Mar 17, 6:17 am, Muthu Ramadoss <[email protected]> wrote: > > Can't there be a lite and pro versions always? > > > > On Mar 17, 2009 6:40 PM, "Stoyan Damov" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Correction :) > > > > Started as *C* (release both paid and free), moved to B (paid only), > > will move to C and then back to B :) > > > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Stoyan Damov <[email protected]> > > wrote: > Started as B, now C... > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
