Re: ipad

It's a tough call. I don't know what it costs to port an application from Mac OS X to the iPhone/iPad platform, but I know the OmniGroup's resources aren't those of larger developers, so I am willing to pay the price and hope the functionality equals its OS X cousin.

On Apr 1, 2010, at 3:55 PM, Stephen Thomas wrote:

> As a longtime fan and heavy user of OmniGraffle Pro, I have to admit that the $50 price tag means I'm going to pass on the iPad version. And I say that even though I expect to end up using the iPad as my primary personal computer (replacing an iBook G4). I do know how useful OmniGraffle Pro can be, and I prefer using it on my current computer, but to be honest, most of my diagramming needs can be met just fine with the latest version of Keynote. Sure, about 50% of the time OG would be more convenient, and probably about 10% of the time what I want to do just won't be possible in Keynote, but for $50 I'll live with the inconvenience and a few frustrated artistic aspirations. Apple is probably setting an unreasonable pricing expectation with their $10 iWork apps (the Apple brand will help them make it up in volume; plus they're really using apps to drive hardware sales). Still, no more than about $20 seems right for an iPad version of OG. Wolfram Alpha's recent capitulation may be instructive here (though, in their case no more than $5 seems reasonable; interesting that they've gone all the way to $2). Of course, I'm still a big fan of the Omni Group (I own OmniGraffle, OmniPlan, OmniOutliner, and OmniGraphSketcher), and I hope they continue to be successful. At least for now, though, they'll have to do it without me on the iPad.
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> On 2010 April 1, at 3:45 PM, Nic Olinsky wrote:
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>> wow, $50. any customer loyalty discount?
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