Darcy wrote:
... Richard was asking why Coda didn't offer the *option* of downloading upgrades,... He never said anything about *requiring* upgrades to be downloaded.
I understood that Richard was asking about the "option", as opposed to the requrement.
The Finale 2005 install CD, which contains both Mac and PC versions, contains only 241.4 MB of data.
Got it; so the download time on a 56k dialup, based upon the amount of time it took to download the most recent update to 2k5, will be about 23 hours, instead of the 70 I originally estimated.
And Coda could save on manufacturing the physical CDs (and printing the quick reference cards, etc).
I can't say for certain without more information as to the number of units sold per upgrade, and details about MakeMusic!'s contracts with its vendors, but since MakeMusic! is still going to have to provide CD-ROMs for people who do not have an internet connection, and those (such as some users overseas), who pay for internet connections determined in some manner by the amout of connection time who prefer to have the software delivered in that manner, and given that that higher volume runs often incur lower unit costs, it is quite possible, in my opinion, that there may not be a significant savings in manufacturing costs.
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