For myself, the company choose 2 month ago to kill the application in the summer. We choose to focus on the web application and use the web application on tablet. When a saw the new, I was just "Yeah another bad public relation message from Adobe", seeing that Adobe give the support to another company is not a problem, but reading the news and going on the website with just a teasing with no information on the future pricing just turn me off.
Le ven. 31 mai 2019, à 06 h 59, Paulus de B. <[email protected]> a écrit : > Our revenue model does not depend on the number of users but on how they > use > it. So each user (actually client) gets charged a different monthly amount > depending on usage, not on how many users this client has. And by usage, we > mean actual processing done on our servers for our clients. They use the > app > to determine what to do, but our servers do the processing (hence we can > charge for usage). > > Therefore, with every development tool / IDE / platform / database we have > to select, as soon as there is a per end user license we drop it from our > list of options. > > Besides the cost, the per end user license is a nightmare to administer. We > have thousands of users currently using our Flash app which we intend on > migrating to Flex/AIR. With users being added / removed every week I can > tell you upfront we are not going to setup an entire administration just > for > license fees. And remember, we are coming from the Flash player in the web > browser which both have no per end user license model. > > And what if you want a freemium model? With a per user license you can't > roll out a freemium model because you want users to use your app for free > to > start with. > > The per end user limits the deployment of apps whereas AIR is such a great > solution to the multi platform problem it should be all over the place. > > I completely understand if you are going to maintain and develop the AIR > player you have to get paid. But the per end user route limits the AIR > deployment severely (and thus in the end will actually give you less > revenue). > > Don't get me wrong, I love the Flex/AIR combination and we don't mind > paying > a (reasonable) developer seat fee for it. But like I said, the per end user > license is a no go will make us drop it from our list. > > > > -- > Sent from: http://apache-flex-users.2333346.n4.nabble.com/ > -- André Lacasse, Programmeur, Scolab <https://www.scolab.com/>.
