----- Original Message ----- From: "David Zaninovic" Subject: Re: Capture One Pro vs Adobe RAW converter
Maybe his cost of materials and effort for each copy is greater than with software. With software people already have the trial
installed they just need the key to activate it so materials for each copy are much cheaper for them. They could charge $500 for
version where you can call customer support for free and $100 for a version where you can't. The manufacturing cost is not lower
for them if they sell crippled version of the software.
Material cost has little or nothing to do with final price.
Time is the expensive component.
It takes time to write software, more time to write good software.
That trial version you seem to think is free isn't.
It cost a software developer time to write it, more time to work the bugs out of it, and still more time to write the support code for various RAW formats.
William Robb
