Bye, and thanks for the fish

[Mike Kerner]

@keith ok, so run the numbers

On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 7:56 AM Keith Martin via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Unless someone’s hoarding gold that’s an interesting but not all that
> useful pricing comparison. I prefer the Big Mac Index (
> https://www.statista.com/statistics/274326/big-mac-index-global-prices-for-a-big-mac/
> <
> https://www.statista.com/statistics/274326/big-mac-index-global-prices-for-a-big-mac/>)
> and regular historical inflation/value charts. ;)
>
> However, yes, we do get a lot from LC.
>
> k
>
>
> > On 2 Sep 2021, at 09:38, Bernard Devlin via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > Over on the forum Kevin has been encouraging people to contact support
> with
> > any issues. Some are refusing to do so, making ridiculous demands in
> > response.
> >
> > Yesterday I had a look at the historical prices to see if LC was
> > significantly more expensive than Metacard:
> > 2001 - Metacard ($995)  [$288]
> > 2005 - Revolution Enterprise (£899) [£243]
> > 2021 - Livecode (3x distro platforms £720) [£1316]
> >
> > In square brackets behind each is [the price of an ounce of gold] (if
> > someone's got a better comparator, they can post it e.g. crude oil, pork
> > bellies, cost of an entry level Mac, etc).
> >
> > So Metacard cost 3 ounces of gold, Rev Enterprise cost 3.7 oz of gold,
> > today's Livecode equivalent costs 0.54 oz of gold.  Even if one adds all
> 7
> > of the distro platforms (3 of which certainly didn't exist in 2005), a
> full
> > Livecode license costs just over 1oz of gold, so between 1/3rd of the
> price
> > of 15 years ago (or as little as 1/6th the price of Metacard).
> Objectively
> > speaking, the customer today gets so much more for so much less.  Apart
> > from those who have been used to getting something for free.
> >
> > It was only this time last year I stated how amazing it was that Livecode
> > manages all the complexity of producing software that runs on so many
> > divergent platforms (I was navigating the version compatibilities of
> Xcode,
> > Android Studio, MacOS, iOS, AndroidOS, Windows OS, and Livecode), not to
> > mention producing two different versions of Livecode (free and
> > commercial).  Something had to give.
> >
> > Regards, Bernard
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