Pricing / entry cost for this tool

[Charles Hartman]

On Nov 27, 2005, at 2:42 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

>
> But at the end of the day, Adobe couldn't find enough users who  
> didn't prefer the more professionally-oriented Flash to justify  
> keeping LiveMotion alive.
>

Products that have done well from the low end (which may mean, not  
that they're still around but that they've gained legendary status in  
memory -- you can take that to the bank, can't you? . . .) may not  
have done it by attracting people who already knew that they wanted  
to do what the product did (I must make a Flash thingie! but I'm  
stingy!). Attracting casuals off the street, instead. A lot of people  
tried programming for the first time because of Borland Pascal,  
DeSmet C, HyperCard . . . They weren't choosing between one product  
and another (e.g., a pro and a lite version). I imagine a certain  
number of the pros on this list began that way.

Charles Hartman