None of these are constructive responses to his question: The problem appears to be that no one can come up with a satisfactory answer to his last question - and I think the reason is because you all realize that there IS no satisfactory answer, and are instead resorting to the same retread arguments from yesterday - becoming part of the problem, not the solution. You can stand on your "princples" all you want, but "principles" don't keep food on the table. Look people, what it boils down to is basically two choices: Maybe that's what you could charge for - the web service that syncs the feeds between products on multiple machines? It's not something that could be stolen on a warz site. I love the synchronization between the 3. And, whatever you decide, I will continue to use your products on Windows, Mac, & iPhone.
I do want to thank you for considering this decision so publicly. Write them off and deal with the rest of us. That's a small % of the users who you"re going to lose no matter what you do. I don't think you can worry too much about warz sites.
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Others will put up with ads to save money, or to try the software before buying. There are enough of us out there who will pay to eliminate ads. They put an ad in the twitter stream once an hour. I have purchased twitterific for both OS X & iPhone, because I don't want the ads, even though the ads were not very intrusive. One version is free, with ads, and the other version is for sale, without ads.
They make 2 versions of the OS X & iPhone app. They seem to be making money with 2 versions. If charging for software doesn’t work, and advertising in software bothers so many people, then what else can we do?Ĭheck with the guys at Iconfactory, who make twitterific ( ). Which is why I want to hear from you about anything we might be overlooking. Very few people are willing to pay for software anymore, so we had to look at other sources of revenue. Really, that’s a huge reason why we considered ads in the first place. Within days of releasing a paid ad-free version, it would be available on hundreds of warez sites and IRC channels. Today’s audience has been conditioned to expect software for free, and plenty of otherwise honest people have no qualms about piracy. Look, I love the fact that there are still people who buy software – even just to get rid of the ads - but the ugly truth for developers is that these people are in the extreme minority. Let’s just assume we offer an ad-free version for a small fee: would that alone be enough to pay the bills? I have serious doubts about that (that doesn’t mean we won’t do it, but it does mean we have to consider other approaches, too). So.what I would like to know next is how you recommend we earn revenue from our software. Anyway, if you want a bit more detail on our thinking behind the ad-based version, check out this post on Jeff Nolan’s blog. I won’t claim to have been in love with the idea, but after considering the alternatives, and especially once I saw how the ads would look in FeedDemon, I felt better about it. Charging for our software again didn’t seem wise (imagine the reaction to that!), which led us to consider advertising as a possible revenue stream. The problem for us is that we find ourselves in an ugly economic climate that absolutely requires everyone to earn revenue wherever they can. For many of you, it’s not about how tasteful or targeted the ads are: it’s about not wanting to be sold to every minute of your lives. I personally don’t find the ads in FeedDemon to be bothersome, but I do recognize that advertising has entered every corner of our lives, and sometimes it seems there’s no escaping it no matter how hard we try. I really don’t want to say yet what we’re going to do as a result (because we’re not sure yet), but please don’t think my lack of response is due to anything other than not wanting to open my mouth too soon.įunny thing is, I actually do understand some of the negative reaction to ads (for proof, take a look at this cartoon I drew many years ago). On second thought, that headline might not be entirely correct :)Īs you can imagine, the comments to my last post have spawned a lot of conversations at NewsGator.
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