Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] New version of iView Media Pro
From: Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:34:09 +1000

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).
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