This might indicate that they could extend the 50% discount for existing users indefinitely. That feedback has not fallen on deaf ears." " We've received a lot of negative feedback about "Year Two" pricing for upgraders. I've written to Smile about this and I got the following reply from them today: Here's a wide collection of reactions to this by Michael Tsai. And even if sales only went down by a factor of five and thus this whole operation would just be breaking even, they'd still pissed off 80% of their customers, which cannot be good publicity.Ĭlick to expand. Congratulations, price per unit goes up by a factor of five but number of units sold goes down by a factor of ten. And by not offering a cheaper, missing some new features version, they have priced themselves out of 90% of the market. We can argue about subscriptions but regardless, Smile picked a price that is way too high. Smile is telling me I now should pay 5x that? That's ridiculous.
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I paid about $30 for TextExpander 3.x in 2012 and $20 for the upgrade to version 5 last year. Make that $1/month and now we are talking. If we reversed that comparison, this would imply TextExpander being worth $400 to $500. Adobe offers Lightroom + Photoshop for twice that, a package that cost north of $1000 in their standalone versions.
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Click to expand.Only $5/month sounds like a small number but if every app you use semi-regularly were to charge this, you'd be out off a lot of money very quickly.