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Posts: 2065 from 2003/6/4
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Methanoid schrieb:
Only registered today to post here..
I've often considered MOS and did try it and liked it on a Mac Mini.
I WONT buy it.. its crazy expensive IMHO. I would at €29-39. If I wanted to use MOS I would just use it for 30m and reboot. I suspect very few people buy it cos of the high price. If it was a sensible price you'd see many old Mini and G5 computers sold on eBay for old time Amiga users who would spend a bit to have a play.
Whether you get 3x sales, I don't know.. but whoever sets the price has to ask themselves.. are we getting enough sales already? You want NEW sales. Those who paid €111 are not paying again. They are done. They have been milked. Maybe now milk a cheaper market?
Look at the other OSs
Linux - free
Windows - moving to a service model. You can buy Win10 for €20 (yes you can!)
OSX - now free with the hardware but previously €20 or so. My OSX was £14.99 I think?
Do you want to make sales, grow your userbase or not?
OK. I'm done. Doubt I will be back. You can all feel great about MOS, all 20 of you or whatever. Another potential MOS user put off.
Or I'll just use the 30m restricted one forever. You made nothing from me. Great job!
Indeed the price seems high on first sight (and I wouldn't complain if it ws lowered). But ppl tend to oversee the free upgrades Look my eldest MorphOS license is from the 2.0 release. I paid 111 EUR and got a key for MorphOS 2.0, then 2.1 came, I upgraded, the key stood valid. That was repeated quite many times until 3.9 now. If I divide the 111 EUR by the updates or years the cost becomes rather little.
But I would suggest to get a common price for all supported maschines, the 111 EUR look a bit arbitrary IMHO.
And comparison with OS X or Windows - gosh, that's really not the case. Look, I don't call my local carpenter silly when he charged me a fortune for a dining table while I can a dining table at Ikea for 99.-. But the Ikea table is booooring. It's mass market, my local carpenter does a complete different business although on first sight he sells tables just as Ikea sells tables. Maybe he would be glad to be in a position like Ikea, but he isn't. And he would be stupid to pretend he were. hence he doesn't.
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