Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What is Cocoa-ization? On Thursday, Sep 11, 2003, at 05:26 Australia/Melbourne, Johnny Deadman wrote: > Well, I think it's in a different league from GraphicConverter, which > still feels like quite klunky, slow shareware desite having many of > the virtues of a Swiss Army Knife. > > I think iView's problem was that they positioned themselves as > shareware for a long time but in fact the product has matured into a > full retail application, and at some point they knew they had to bite > the bullet and price it accordingly. Their competition is Extensis > Portfolio and frankly I think theirs is a better product. > > Having said that the $75 upgrade fee is a slap in the face for many > users and I think will cost them a lot of friends. I guess they are > gambling that people will discover that iView is indispensable (which > it certainly is for me). The next step will presumably be a full > Cocoa-ization of the application... the $75 upgrade would have made a > lot more sense if they had done that. > > On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 02:58 PM, J. Gilbert Plantinga > wrote: > >> I've used iView since it first came out, and quite frankly, the >> upgrade price ($72) is OUTRAGEOUS, more than I paid for the original >> shareware program, more than twice the cost of Graphic Converter >> (which serves an entirely different function, but is nonetheless in >> the same league). I've emailed them my thoughts on this, and would >> hope that other users would do the same. Yes it's a great program, >> but I don't see functionality to support the price(-gouging). > -- > John Brownlow > > http://www.pinkheadedbug.com > http://www.unintended-consequences.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > Alastair - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html