About 6 months ago we purchased a copy of Codewarrior 8 for $400. The new version 9 costs $350 or $50 less than the old version. If we "upgrade" to version 9 we need to spend a total of $600 to get the latest copy where as if we and many other people waited would only have spent $350, less than we originally paid for.
The $200 dollar price to upgrade seems way out of sync the way this sounds. Metrowerks already got $400 from us, and now want 50% more? ben, does this make any sense to you? I called the sales guy at Metrowerks and he said the biggest plus to upgrade to version 9 was that it contained the simulator and the OS 5 SDK! Just like everyone else, I have downloaded the SDK and the simulator for free months ago. Ed Ben Combee wrote: > At 23:57 2002-11-12 -0500, you wrote: > >Ok, What gives? V9 costs 1/2 of V8! A full copy of V9 costs less than > >upgrading 7 to 8??? Is this a marketing thing or is V9 not a full product? > >Will I still need V8 to produce pre-OS5 compatible apps? > > The price of CodeWarrior for Palm OS V9 is $399, which is $150 more than > the current V7-to-V8 upgrade. Our presale promotion lets you save $50, > making the price $349, which is still $100 more than the old V7-to-V8 > upgrade price. The V9 upgrade price is $199 (half of its MSRP), but if > bought before the release, Metrowerks will pay for the shipping. This > isn't clearly presented on our store site right now -- I'll pass this > concern on to our web team to get it cleared up. > > V9 includes 95% of the functionality included with V8, plus a lot of new > features. The Handspring Springboard ROM linker was dropped from the > product, and are we no longer distributing the HandEra 330 SDK. The > product is also hosted only on Win32 systems, not Mac OS, but everything > else from V8 is included. The V9 tools are capable of targeting everything > from Palm OS 1.0 devices to the current Palm Tungsten T and Sony NX70V devices. > > We looked at the pricing of V8 and feedback from our customers, and we got > a strong message that the price of the V8 tools was too high for a large > part of the market. To respond, we rolled the price of V9 back from $499 > to $399, and since our upgrades are traditionally half of the full price, > that was reduced accordingly. Our hope is that more developers will see > the advantages of updating, and the increased number of renewals will > offset the price reduction, making both Metrowerks and the development > community happy. > > -- > Ben Combee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CodeWarrior for Palm OS technical lead > Palm OS programming help @ www.palmoswerks.com > > -- > For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see >http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
