Sally McBride wrote in message <55181@palm-dev-forum>...
>I think the $70K overhead/programmer for a small
>company is a little outrageous (for more info see
>f@#kedcompany and the discussion on how ebags.com had
>to lay off 100+ people and how many people it really
>takes to sell bags on the internet). I see a program
>like Bejeweled selling for $12.95. It probably could
>be programmed in 1-2 man months. So based on the
>formula up there, I get about $50K to develop it.
>That brings the cost down to $4.
For a small company, $80K/programmer is currently outrageous,
even on the west coast. But for any company that has been
around for a while, they'll have at least $40K/programmer
overhead.
That doesn't bring the cost down to $4. You're forgetting about
all those other expenses that I listed.
Of course, the majority of palm games are written by individuals
on their own time. So anything they make is often treated as
found money.
>
>I think $5 or so is fair for a product. Of course
>there are exceptions, but not many. Hell I would even
>pay Aaron $5 if he would get pilrc to work with my new
>fancy makefiles :>
I've always thought that the free open source software
people went overboard. If I was making money with
using Pilrc, I wouldn't have any problem donating $10
to Aaron.
Todd.
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