Re: Thinking about shareware prices... (was a question about NSDate inside userDefaults)
Re: Thinking about shareware prices... (was a question about NSDate inside userDefaults)
- Subject: Re: Thinking about shareware prices... (was a question about NSDate inside userDefaults)
- From: Don Arbow <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 12:17:04 -0800
On Jan 8, 2004, at 12:10 AM, Charles Srstka wrote:
Thanks for the article. I'm not sure I agree with it, though. For
certain types of utilities (of which mine is a member) which do any
kind of recovery, diagnostics, or repair on a user's system, files,
disk, or are used in any other way to solve problems, time-based
limitations and crippling both seem like a poor idea. The user wants
to know if the utility will actually work to fix whatever is wrong
with their machine before they pay for it. I know I feel this way
about shareware utilities if I ever have to use them - why register
something that won't fix your problem anyway? The user has to be able
to try it out and be sure first. Otherwise it would be lost sales, I
think.
Crippling of disk repair utilities is not such a bad idea.
Take for example Data Rescue. It has the ability to get files off an
unmountable drive. You can download the program and retrieve any file
off the disk, just to see if it works. You can do this as many times as
you'd like, the caveat being that you must restart the program and
rescan the drive each time. It takes 2 or 3 minutes each time to
retrieve a file. I used it this way to get about 10 files that I really
needed right away off the drive, then sprung for the full version for
$89, well worth the money.
Don
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