Re: Upgrade path to Turbo Delphi

It doesn't really matter what the price is. Basically if you give same
"special price" to new users as to people who own earlier version of what is
essentially the same product then you're denying previous users an upgrade
price. How many other software products are there that deny upgrade prices
to earlier users? DevCo can spin some mumbo jumbo about the Turbo's being a
new SKU (when Turbo Delphi is pretty much exactly just a newer version of
Delphi 7) and they can tapdance and say everyone's getting a "special
price". But it smacks of corporate double-talk to me, and that's the kind
of thing I was hoping DevCo would get away from.

From the get-go, DevCo has said this is a new product line, intended for new users. The only thing wrong I've seen is the hijacking of the product line by people demanding upgrade pricing levels below what even D6, D7 upgraders are used to. "Hmmmm....I perceive this bologna sandwich to be my upgrade, I demand the vendor sell it to me for half price!"

Whatever price it is, people who are upgrading from earlier version should
pay less. That's the way software pricing works.

So a person that has D3 should pay less than a new user? IMO, a person that has not upgraded from D3 *is* a new user. It is very common for software pricing to work like this: if I skip 2 versions, to get to the latest version I have to pay for 3 upgrades. I think DevCo should use that common way of doing it because that, also, is the way software pricing works.

That's what makes me so sad to see this corporate doubletalk stuff about
"everyone gets the special price" and "TurboDelphi is a new SKU". The
Turbos are a brilliant idea, perfect for DevCo. Then they go and mess it up
by dissing previous users. Like I said before, it's no skin off my back;
I'll be upgrading to BDS. But I sympathize with developers, many of them
hobbyists, who have Delphi 5, 6, or 7, who only want to upgrade to a new
Delphi Pro, and who are now not getting a special upgrade price, just the
same "special" price that else pays.

Let me see. You and the "poor hobbyists" are willing to pay $400 for an upgrade from D6 to D7, but unwilling to pay $400 for an upgrade to Turbo Delphi, just because new users also get that price? So, the hobbyists aren't poor afterall, they are just bitter, jealous, and pessimistic? .

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