1) After the initial (and subsequent) cost outlay should be easily absorbed by the revenue generated from your deployed product. Unless you are a hobbyist, but I've repeatedly said many times that I have hobbies that cost me more than a Delphi 2010 Architect license - so it just depends how much you like your hobby!!
2) Secondly, where has it been mentioned that Delphi is getting iPhone support? Supporting OSX and iPhone are two different beasts I would think. Considering one compiles on Intel hardware and the iPhone isn't Intel hardware. Many iPhone apps couple their use with a desktop application, be it windows, mac, linux based. You are quite correct about functionality in Delphi going unused. I rarely use any database functionality. Also no longer use web service functionality since no one (Embarcadero / RemObjects) seems to be able to provide decent support for Soap 2.0. Using C# for web services stuff now. On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Jolyon Smith <jsm...@deltics.co.nz> wrote: >> Pro upgrade is $519 (AUD) for Delphi 2010. > > Ok, but if you want to use upgrade pricing as an indicator of cost then you > should at least factor in that you will need to upgrade each year to stay > current, and at least every 3 years to retain access to upgrade pricing > > Assuming they don't pull that upgrade qualification window in any tighter > than they have already - I suspect they will ... I expect to see it reduced > first to 2 prior versions, then eventually only to immediate prior versions. > > "But there is no indication that they will do that!" > > Granted. Just as there was no indication that they would limit it to 3 > versions. Until they announced the date on which that policy would start. > > > > So anyway, back to Delphi vs Apple Dev tools costs.... > > That's $519 AUD *per* *annum* vs $99 (or $299 if you're an "enterprise") > > I would say $2000+ initial with $520 per annum thereafter, but if you want > to we can sweeten the pill and simply disregard the costs from the > perspective of a new user (the Delphi community doesn't need those, right?). > > >> Just because something is "free" doesn't make it a good "investment". > > And equally just because something is expensive... > > But in this case we're talking not about "investment" as such but rather > "tooling". > > And I'd say that a tool that is free which you use to produce something > which may or may not yield a return is absolutely a better investment than a > tool which costs a significant amount of money with the *same* potential > return on your efforts. Or not. > > It's the software you produce with the tool that will yield the return. The > return isn't a function of the tool cost. It's not even, directly, a > function of the quality and feature set of the tools. > > >> The apple tools are way behind other IDE's for usability and > functionality. > > I suspected they might be. But then again, "usability" of a tool is not > reflected in the quality or success of the software produced with the tool. > And a lot of usability can be forgiven for a "free" tag. > > Ditto functionality. > > There is a lot of functionality in the Delphi IDE that I am sure even you > never use. You pay for it all of course, and it might give you warm fuzzies > to know that your $$'s bought you something. Even if you do never use it > all. > > >> I suggest you download them and try them for yourself. > > I have no interest in trying the Apple tools myself. The only Apple device > I own is an aging iPod nano (2nd gen I think). > > > All I'm doing is pointing out what I consider to be the mistake of thinking > that iPhone platform support is going in some way to contribute to the > success of a product with a Windows Enterprise Development price tag. > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: > unsubscribe > _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
