DesktopX Pro Pricing Discussion

Thursday, November 20, 2003 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

Few products have gotten off to such an intense start.  We're getting a lot of email from users who want DesktopX Pro but can't afford $499.

Their uses vary but boil down to this:

1) Being able to use for internal apps

2) Sending a "gadget" to a friend or family4 member.

3) Making widgets for personal use where they just want to run something they make on their various home machines and not worry whether they have DesktopX on all of them or not.

These are 3 types of people that we are not currently targeting with DesktopX Pro.

But what if we did this:

Have DesktopX Pro be $129 instead and put into the license that programs created with it may not be sold or used for marketing purposes?

So when you click to get DesktopX Pro, you would be presented with two options:

a) I will not be selling applications created with DesktopX Pro or using them for marketing purposes: $129

I will be using DesktopX Pro for commercial development: $499

The question is, would $129 still be "too high" for power users? Much less than $129 and it's really not worth it and gets too close to the Object Desktop price.

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Sugaree
Reply #41 Friday, November 21, 2003 8:48 PM
Paxx...I bet you sell alot of those naughty girl calenders huh?

bakerstreet
Reply #42 Friday, November 21, 2003 9:12 PM
Paxx: No, that isn't what I mean. Your company doesn't MAKE the clocks you sell, do they? They get them from a supplier that offers many different things that can be branded. In your example, NVidia would hire your company, who would in turn hire a designer to make the graphic, which would then be shipped off to the folks that apply it to all the pens, t-shirts, etc. They could include branded software knick-knacks as a service along with the t-shirts, etc., that they offer to the your company to offer to your clients.

There are a great number of businesses that do what I describe, probably a dozen in my area. For those people who actually offer the items to be promotionally branded, $499 would be little to pay for a permanent item with no further overhead.



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