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: Michael Grant <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 08:42:30 -0600
On Jan 8, 2004, at 4:54 AM, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
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.
That sounds like a reasonable balance, but I'm not sure it would work
for users like me--I play with a lot of shareware, but sometimes months
may pass between the time I install something and the time I actually
start trying it out. Or I may launch something once, but then find I
don't really have time that day to put it through its paces, and not
get back to it for weeks or months. If that happens with your product
and I can't figure out how to reset the trial period, you've lost me.
(Note: I'm not criticizing, just sharing my experience as a user.) Of
course I have no idea what percentage of users that pattern represents,
but I wonder if expiration based on the number of launches, or maybe
total time loaded, might not be more effective.
Michael
--
With usura hath no man a house of good stone
each block cut smooth and well fitting
that design might cover their face...
- Ezra Pound, Canto 45
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