Over on the forum Kevin has been encouraging people to contact support with any issues. Some are refusing to do so, making ridiculous demands in response.
Yesterday I had a look at the historical prices to see if LC was significantly more expensive than Metacard: 2001 - Metacard ($995) [$288] 2005 - Revolution Enterprise (£899) [£243] 2021 - Livecode (3x distro platforms £720) [£1316] In square brackets behind each is [the price of an ounce of gold] (if someone's got a better comparator, they can post it e.g. crude oil, pork bellies, cost of an entry level Mac, etc). So Metacard cost 3 ounces of gold, Rev Enterprise cost 3.7 oz of gold, today's Livecode equivalent costs 0.54 oz of gold. Even if one adds all 7 of the distro platforms (3 of which certainly didn't exist in 2005), a full Livecode license costs just over 1oz of gold, so between 1/3rd of the price of 15 years ago (or as little as 1/6th the price of Metacard). Objectively speaking, the customer today gets so much more for so much less. Apart from those who have been used to getting something for free. It was only this time last year I stated how amazing it was that Livecode manages all the complexity of producing software that runs on so many divergent platforms (I was navigating the version compatibilities of Xcode, Android Studio, MacOS, iOS, AndroidOS, Windows OS, and Livecode), not to mention producing two different versions of Livecode (free and commercial). Something had to give. Regards, Bernard _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
