From: Alex Santos (izabella.misiewiczsantos_at_neostrada.pl)
Date: Mon May 23 2005 - 12:50:11 PDT
I was contemplating the issue of unsupported software currently being
sold for the Newton.
I understand many previous developers continue to sell software whose
development cycle has ended long ago/ Software which is no longer
supported, no longer developed, in many cases it is just abandon-ware
for sale. That's how I see it, others may disagree.
It's not necessarily wrong to sell these packages, but let me put
things into perspective:
There are cases of software being sold for the Newton at 50 bucks a
crack. Fine, but these are sometimes 20-Kilobyte packages. Sorry but
people are buying CURRENT software for CURRENT PDAs at half the price,
furthermore the software is supported and being further developed. Let
me grind the issue a little further, iLife an entire suite costs 99
dollars and is both modern, currently developed and supported and
Megabytes worth of code was written.
I hope I am not being unfair, granted I can't compare apples and
oranges but I can say that I will not drop 50 bucks on a package that
is no longer developed and support is minimal.
What do you think?
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