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: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 05:54:30 -0500
on 2004-01-07 9:36 PM, Michael Grant at email@hidden wrote:
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On Jan 7, 2004, at 7:57 PM, Alex Rice wrote:
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> - how hard you push the "buy" message. Fully functional shareware with
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> only a note in the readme: "it would be nice if you registered this
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> app eventually" will get virtually no sales.
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I don't have any statistics, but I suspect that nagware that won't let
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the user do anything or is too annoying during the trial period doesn't
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do much better. Kind of a Laffer curve or something.
Personally, I'm hard-nosed about it. My product expires after 30 days, and
that's it. The only nag is the word "unregistered" in the UI, and starting a
week before expiration a daily alert with a convenient button taking you to
our Web site (as a courtesy to people who really do need it and would be
left high-and-dry for a few days if it just expired suddenly on the 30th
day). We call it a "commercial" product, NOT "shareware," although the
distribution mechanism is the same.
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