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Swift To-Do List 7 Standard FREE today 2012-03-26 Only on BDJ
Curt:
dextronet is repeating the upgrade offer they also gave via Bits du Jour:
The price is plus VAT.
Hi ,
You are currently using the Standard edition of Swift To-Do List, but today,
you can upgrade to Swift To-Do List 7 Professional with a big 50% discount!
Instead of paying the full price of $89.95, you can get it just for $45.
Click here to purchase the upgrade:
http://go.dextronet.com/to-pro
-dextronet Swift To-Do List
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tomos:
dextronet is repeating the upgrade offer they also gave via Bits du Jour:-Curt (April 02, 2012, 04:45 PM)
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just to remind any trigger happy purchasers of the possible cons to this purchase:
seems very expensive to me, especially in the context of the pro version being demeaned.
-tomos (March 26, 2012, 12:31 PM)
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It's extremely expensive, and now those who shelled out for the Pro version are left hanging, as new features will go into the Ultimate version mostly. In a three-tier scheme like this, the top version is usually geared toward enterprise environments (multi-user database, security, advanced connectivity or various data exchange options, etc). But to add a spell-checker module (most likely just a third-party component) and some icons and call it "ultimate" is quite... wrong IMO.-tranglos (March 26, 2012, 12:46 PM)
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Steven Avery:
Hi,
It looks like Jiri is trying to limit the damage:
"Jiri Novotny:
The Ultimate edition includes mainly "premium" features compared to Professional. You don't need them: 100 extra tree icons, spellchecker, two-line displaying of tasks, etc. Even in the future, the Ultimate-only features will be mainly features like this, eye-candy, etc. Everything truly important is in Professional - and always will."
However, I'm pretty sure that earlier (not running back to check) he said that new development, new features, would be mostly Premium.
Giving him the benefit of the doubt, we can say that he realizes that some of his user base is not happy with the way the 3-tier is implemented, and is awkwardly trying to limit the damage.
The irony here is that Dextronet could easily raise revenue by normal "new releases", since they are not in a "lifetime" type of model. And satisfied users would gladly pay, I believe, a $25 upgrade fee if there was real new value, every 12-24 months. So he did not have to try for the gold with the premium, which only works to demean a moderately pricey pro license.
On top of that Jiri is planning some type of sync-server thing which is supposed to be subscription. So the whole thing was quite unnecessary. Any ultimate edition (as Tomos points out) should have involved network, server, enterprise and/or sync, encryption, maybe fancy import-export, not basic functions (spell-check, calendar) or eye-candy.
Steven
Innuendo:
It looks like Jiri is trying to limit the damage:
"Jiri Novotny:
The Ultimate edition includes mainly "premium" features compared to Professional. You don't need them: 100 extra tree icons, spellchecker, two-line displaying of tasks, etc. Even in the future, the Ultimate-only features will be mainly features like this, eye-candy, etc. Everything truly important is in Professional - and always will."-Steven Avery (April 03, 2012, 08:03 AM)
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While those are noble words from Mr. Novotny, his pricing structure does not bear out his words. If everything "truly important" is in Professional then why in the world are people going to pay the $110 for the, by default, 'non-important' features in Ultimate?
It does not make sense.
concatenator:
I like the program, but as you say, it makes sense to have all the important features in the Pro version, since most people have that (and they were promised on earlier Bits threads) but I wonder what features could then be included which would really justify the big price difference for Ultimate?
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