The price isnt' unfair when compared to other high-end products.
This issue however is, WO is just as useful to create simple
sites as it is for complex sites, it's just not cost effective
for that.
So ultimately, Apple, like before in its history, has to ask itself:
Do we want to focus on the high-margin, high-profit high end and
sacrifice market share (just to be eventually eaten by the low-end
products that capture market share and then step by step upgrade
features to break into formerly high-end domains), or do we want to
capture the dynamic web site market as a whole, compete with ASP,
and give some high-end users a better deal than they "deserve"?
This is a policy question. And one that Apple has to think fast and
hard over. You know, there was also a time when Macs could be sold
with a huge premium over the inferior PC market. It just so happened
that the PC market eventually was so much cheaper and not that much
worse than the Mac market, that Apple had shot itself in the foot.
The same thing can happen with WO if the price stays where it is.
Anyway, this isn't really a development issue anymore.
Ronald
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