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Even when Apple launched the iPhone appstore. Software used to cost $50 for shareware, $600 for MS Office, probably $2k for Delphi or Visual Basic. There was no
by laurent92 5y ago
Even when Apple launched the iPhone appstore. Software used to cost $50 for shareware, $600 for MS Office, probably $2k for Delphi or Visual Basic. There was no way one would survive with apps at $1 or $2!
There still isn’t, but we have many apps.
- pm90 5y agoWe have a lot more paid users. A full 100 million more Americans, and even more in the rest of the developed world. And nearly everyone in the developed world has a smartphone.
- bodhiandphysics 5y agoDelphi and vb were crazy cheap. Vb cost 200 bucks. Delphi could be had for 50. It’s one of the reasons for their incredible success.
- robocat 5y agoI don’t remember Delphi ever being cheap, although you could perhaps get academic versions or gimped personal editions. About Delphi 2 released 1996: “List price is $2000 for the Client/Server Suite, $500 for the Desktop version, and $800 for the Developer version. Street prices are usually about half the list price, and upgrade prices are even better. Support options are described the Supportability section of this review.” — https://www.thekompany.com/review-of-delphi-2-from-borland/ https://www.thekompany.com/review-of-delphi-2-from-borland/ Prices went up from there over the years, and Embarcadero are now acting more like Oracle when it comes to trying to enforce their rules (I had a friend get an incredibly rude and nasty call from Embarcadero, regardless that he was a super fan, and he had already been paying many thousands to be fully licensed. I have never personally seen a professional company treat a paying professional client so poorly - seriously avoid Embarcadero.)
- bodhiandphysics 5y agoYou’re right... I’m remembering wrong. However vb was incredibly cheap