+1 > On Sep 2, 2021, at 01:38 , Bernard Devlin via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > 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
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