Tuesday, November 11, 2003
What Is The Acceptable Price Range For Pocket PC Software
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "THOUGHT" @ 07:10 PM
Earlier this week, SoftMaker started selling their popular $49.95 TextMaker package at a rock bottom $11.11 each as part of a promotion. You can read more about it in the TextMaker thread. They had originally intended to sell 1,111 copies but at this price, they blew through that in two hours and added another 1,111 to the mix. If they cut it off there, they will clear $24,686.42. Not bad for a day's work, eh? :D
So this once again begs the question, what is the appropriate price for software. No one has ever questioned the capabilities of TextMaker. It is simply the mobile word processing program, regardless of the device or operating system. However, some have questioned paying nearly $50 for it. Obviously the $11.11 price is a special sale and is really too low for a program like this, at least in my opinion. So, where do you fall on this issue? What would you consider paying for full featured applications? I'm not talking about utilities, I mean apps like Pocket Informant, Pocket MindMap, Agenda Fusion, TextMaker or Pocket Artist. And yes, some of my ranges overlap, by design.
So this once again begs the question, what is the appropriate price for software. No one has ever questioned the capabilities of TextMaker. It is simply the mobile word processing program, regardless of the device or operating system. However, some have questioned paying nearly $50 for it. Obviously the $11.11 price is a special sale and is really too low for a program like this, at least in my opinion. So, where do you fall on this issue? What would you consider paying for full featured applications? I'm not talking about utilities, I mean apps like Pocket Informant, Pocket MindMap, Agenda Fusion, TextMaker or Pocket Artist. And yes, some of my ranges overlap, by design.
