You are talking about cost to develop the software and I am talking about cost per user of that software, these are very different things. Cost per customer increases only if they offer free support. Instead of materials I wanted to say resources.
----- Original Message ----- From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 4:22 PM Subject: Re: Capture One Pro vs Adobe RAW converter > > ----- 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 > >
