Marian Petrides wrote:
FWIW, this amateur (OK, near amateur) finally bit the bullet on
RevMobile when I got a special offer that dropped the price to
something like $550 because I REALLY want to be able to develop for
the iPad.
OTOH, my subscription to Rev Enterprise is paid up until 2016 or so
and I bought into On-Rev Founder, so I'm hardly a tight wad when it
comes to buying Rev products. That said, even I agree that the
current _list_ price for RevMobile is prohibitive for anyone who
does not already have a product ready to be deployed on the iPad.
Not sure what the answer is, just making an observation....
I just do this as a hobby. As an enterprise licensee, I have put a
LOT of money into Rev over the years, including an On-Rev Founder
account that has mostly been sitting dormant. Hopefully, two years
after that purchase there will finally be some upgrades to that
product in the coming months. I would definitely consider
relinquishing the On-Rev stuff I have access to for something that is
turning out to be much more compelling to me. Especially since I
suspect there is more likelihood of ongoing development and
improvements on Rev-Mobile than On-Rev. That is money spent that may
eventually prove worthwhile but so far not really.
As far as I know, I never got any kind of special offer for
Rev-Mobile. If I had some kind of offer to drop the price of Rev
Mobile, I likely would buy into it. I guess it takes a lot more than
being a multi-year Enterprise license holder (I show licensing info
from all the way back to 2002 or so - I'm not sure that it was
Enterprise until 2004-ish) and an On-Rev founder to qualify for that
kind of thing. (Or maybe I somehow missed it?) So I'm not exactly a
tightwad when it comes to purchasing things from RunRev either, but
this one just seems to push a bit too far. I hate to think what you
must have done over the years to get such an offer.
I REALLY want to be able to develop for the iPad also, but...
I don't really care about the conference access, but I didn't see an
option to just participate in the alpha and release without all the
conference stuff, unfortunately. Don't get me wrong, the conference
would be great, but I would gladly give up live access to that for
access to Rev-Mobile. I would love something along the lines of the
On-Rev founder access to Rev-Mobile. Even the option to buy into that
for several years of updates without the conference stuff would have
been more attractive to me. More up-front money but better return for
someone not doing this professionally.
But, I'm instead looking at $800 for an alpha with a potential
release later this year and then the prospect of paying more for an
upgrade license each year than I do for RevEnterprise. So essentially
I would get a product with less functionality than Enterprise (other
than deploying on the iPhone/iPad) with a higher cost than
Enterprise. (In all fairness, there may be an early upgrade price for
Rev-Mobile each year as well, I just haven't seen it mentioned). So,
I'm looking at at least $400/year in upgrade fees between the two
products. Again, not exactly something for the average enthusiast,
but with a cheaper buy-in option more people would consider it. And
it seems that RunRev would benefit from having non-commercial apps
produced with Revolution to show off as well as the specialized
commercial ones that they often won't really be able to talk about
with other customers.
Anyway, I've hopefully made my point. The goal isn't just to
complain, but to agitate a bit for something more reasonable as an
option for people who aren't considering Rev-Mobile vs. spending a
lot more money for commercial development. For that latter group,
Rev-Mobile is probably worthwhile at the current price. They can
probably write it off on taxes in many cases. Being somewhat locked
out of participating in a very compelling enthusiast product due to
an insistence on purely commercial pricing does chafe a bit, though.
(I'll try to keep future replies a bit shorter now that I've ranted a bit)
-Rodney
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