Re: Clam up and pay the 50 Clams.....

Hi Zachary,

As with any other purchase, software or hardware, do you really need the latest version of the software, or is it just "nice-to-hvae"? 

The same question applies to wether you need the pro version or can happily live without the few features that is available in the pro version.

If your iPad/Macintosh is used for work related matter - then you will afford the software. If your iPad/Macintosh is strictly for private use - then you'll need to prioritize.

OmniGraffle is a speciality application- it won't sell as many items as other, more main stream, applications. Due to this fact it is expected that such an application will cost a tad bit more.

If you compare OmniGraffle to their main competitor on the Macintosh - their price is USD 50,- higher - and they do not have a iPad version.

Seriously - USD 50,- is not expensive. If you had to spend USD 50,- a week to upgrade the software - then it would have been expensive. How often do you need to up grade OmniGraffle (or any other software) - once a year? Once every 1.5 year? If you take the cost of OmniGraffle (any version, any platform) and divide it on the number of days you had the software without upgrading - the price would be pretty low. When I did upgrade to the latest version of the software, it had gone more than 500 days since last upgrade (and I use it nearly every day for work related matters). This is less than 10,- US Cent a day.

To put the price into a local perspective: If you compare the price of the software - it's in the same price point as a pizza with 2 large soft drinks (at least in this country). 

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Best regards,
Ruben Olsen
OmniGraffle book author

On 3. apr. 2010, at 12.15, Zachary Braverman wrote:

> Omni should of course maximize their profit, but a price point of $50 might not be doing that. 
> 
> After forking out a lot of money for the hardware, accessories, the iWork apps, and some other apps (games...shhh!), my wallet is already in pretty bad shape right now. 50 dollars for a single app that duplicates functionality I already have on my computer is probably just too much. Just one data point, but $25 is probably my max for this. 
> 
> Zachary Braverman
> www.kotodam.net 
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> On Apr 3, 2010, at 6:26 PM, Elliott Roper wrote:
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>> On 2 Apr 2010, at 16:43, Michael Styles Verruto wrote:
>> 
>>> Ahhh, I'm buyin it. They deserve the support. Everyone quit whining and cough it up. It's piddling catchup for such overly reasonable app prices we've all enjoyed over these many years from Omni for INCREDIBLE software they OFTEN update to our collective hearts desires..... So they deserve a little "pop" once in a while form the throbbing horde....
>> <snip>
>>> 
>>> Thanks, really you guys (and gals) at OMNI for continuing great software service to all of us!
>> 
>> Verité Verruto!
>> As someone old enough to remember having to pay $3000 per seat for a VMS Fortran compiler ferchrissakes, 50 bucks is practically free for such a great tool/toy.
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