I'd go to another dealership and buy a different car. If the car I wanted -only- came with all the options, I'd say, "Hm... ok. I can pony up for the in-dash GPS, the alpine sound system with the bose speakers, the rear camera, the massaging seats (etc), when all I really want is a car with the massaging seats.... or I can go buy a different car with just the massaging seats".
Life's like that. You can choose to say, "OK, I want this badly enough that I'll pay the price", or you say, "I want it, but not that badly". Then you move on. Life ain't gonna cater to you (or to me or to anyone else). The dealership's selling that car with all the options and they're doing it for a reason... right or wrong... and their choice to do so may end up getting them a different result than what they were hoping for. But that's their choice, just as we have to make our choices. I choose to believe that Adobe put some thought into their approach. Again, I definitely see that it isn't an approach that's going to make everybody happy. No approach would. But I see that even though it may not cater to me and what I need... it could potentially serve to meet their needs (cross marketing, growing their communities, etc). Agree or disagree with it, I respect the choice and hope it works out. Because if it does, we all stand to win. On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Rick Faircloth <[email protected]>wrote: > > What would you think if you went to buy a car, but the dealership > refused to sell it to you unless you bought every option available? > > I wouldn't be too happy about being forced to buy a bundle to get the > one product I wanted. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Charlie Griefer [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 5:55 PM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Re: ColdFusion Builder Released! > > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Rick Faircloth > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > And that's all well and good. If I could develop a plug-in for Eclipse, > > I'd try to sell it. Making money is *not* evil. Overcharging customers > > (which > > is the underlying issue driving people's comments, I believe) is... > > > > They're selling CFBuilder -and- FlashBuilder for the price they used to > charge (just a year ago) for FlexBuilder (which is now FlashBuilder). > > They're essentially saying, "here... here's the product we sold last year, > at the price we sold it at. Oh, and we're throwing in ColdFusion Builder". > > > And that would be "overcharging" how...? > > > -- > Charlie Griefer > http://charlie.griefer.com/ > > I have failed as much as I have succeeded. But I love my life. I love my > wife. And I wish you my kind of success. > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:332060 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
