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I think he's trying to focus on the model, not the price. I'm not sure why you think he'd object to a $60 base price or what that has to do with his point.
by watty 11y ago
I think he's trying to focus on the model, not the price. I'm not sure why you think he'd object to a $60 base price or what that has to do with his point.
- 1123581321 11y agoI agree the gist of the article is about the model. About half of the essay deals with price relative to value, which gets into the actual costs in that model. "Is TextExpander worth ½ of Office 365?" "I don’t see anything that I really need in TextExpander version 6." "TextExpander makes things a little easier, which was enough to justify the initial price of TextExpander and upgrades, but not a monthly fee." I think the author would object to a $60 base price based on those comments. Since Smile effectively made two pricing changes at once when they switched to $60/year, it's hard to consider one of them independently. What does this have to do with his point? He may have been harsher on the subscription model than he intended and other developers with a low-cost, one-time fee model might not understand why. I think the essay illustrates why a company should consider trying hard to make only one pricing change at a time.