Re: Re: Registration Code never arrived me

skeezix said the following on 4/17/2012 10:16 AM:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2012, Anita Lewis wrote:
>
> # No problem, Roberto!  We used to be a fairly active list, but now we
> # have very few posts.  Your posts to us were welcome!  I'm glad you found
> # the code.
>
> 	The desktop code has some life in it still, possibly, mind.
>
> 	No, I'm often tempted to get back into the Outliner arena, but its
> a very different landscape; you're not making an app for a handle, or a
> desktop.. now you're making an app that has to win on an unlikely chance
> (its tough out there), and also has to have a significant web present,
> possibly desktop applications.. and Shadow is not some simple $1 app tyhat
> atkes a matter of days or weeks to build; somethign like Shadow was very
> tightly designed and fairly powerful .. the estiamt for an app like that
> in Android or iOS is in the order of $100-200K to get it off the ground.
>
> 	Now, mind, I coudl start real;ly small, which is how I did Shadow
> .. keep costs low, keep agile so you can switch directions very quickly,
> all that.. but its a different game; most apps are simple these days,
> whereas in the old days we wanted desdktop power in a handheld.. now
> they're just different apps, yet mostly simple.. but coming into a
> estabnlished ecology means you have to look better and have better
> features, and in Outliners to get enterprise markets.. you nees strong web
> presence, partnerships with al;l the big mind mapeprs and existing
> outliners.. its a tall order.
>
Resurrecting Shadow would be awesome! It is way more than an outliner!

I absolutely miss Shadow and have thought long and hard on developing this myself - this is no small task.

The iOS crowd seems to be more consumer oriented, Android a mix of both, not yet sure about Windows and I am a fan of Blackberry 
which is more business oriented (though they seem to want to chase the consumer crowd cause the consumer brings the phone to work 
and the rest is IT hell - oh, and at the moment, feels like Palm all over again).

I wouldn't price it cheap actually because price is how you to deter the masses from buying it. Less is more for a product like 
Shadow, at least at first and price is how you've control who will be part of the initial functionality. Basically, lowering the 
price will bring more general users. Problem is how to reward the ones who helped shape it in the first place.

Hope you do pick this back up and run with it!

Jeffrey