Do you think Microsoft are doing only a few sales? At this moment they have
the largest market share, mainly because of the miss conseption that you get
what you pay for, so free software should be rubbish and because most games
need microsoft. Also it is an infinite circle (the more people own microsoft
os's, the more developers develop for microsoft.
People will rather pay a big amount for a product than hundreds of small
installments if they can. It's psycological, one big payment is less open to
question than hundreds of small ones.
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From: "Charles Rivard" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 8:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Windows Versions was Tomb Hunter Error
Wouldn't Microsoft make more money if they would quit reinventing the
automobile and charge a small fee for adding spokes or tires with
different tread patterns to the wheels, improving performance, while
cutting down the expense of development? This is, for the most part, what
Freedom Scientific does with their products. While I don't mind paying
for upgrades to their existing products, I will say that I would like to
see more improvement with each upgrade than we get, but their approach is
good. Build onto, or enhance, a good solid program rather than chucking
it for all new. Charge a smaller amount for the enhancements than you
would for a whole new product. I would not pay $995 every few years for a
new screen reader or an OCR program like OpenBook, but I don't mind $75 a
year for upgrades. I would think that, as a developer, I would rather get
500 payments of $75 every year than far fewer payments of $1,000 in that
time period. A steady income is better than an occasional bonanza..
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