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Originally posted by Massive Quasars
The product is great but it's a frickin' rip off. A reasonable price is 20 maybe 30 dollars USD MAXIMUM. I know how much PDA's have progressed but they're still PDA's for god's sake, and as such they are still limited in their potential and resellers should consider this before trying to screw the customers like they do with the prices for computer software. In conclusion I love the product, I despise the business tactics of the corporation behind it.
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Aha. Well, everybody's entitled to his or her opinion.
Just a few random thoughts:
1. How much did you pay for your Pocket PC? About five to ten times the amount of the price of TextMaker. So, are PPCs a rip-off as well?
2. For $69.95, you get a full word processor for Pocket PCs AND for Windows. Last time I checked, Microsoft Word was several times the price.
3. I just bought a copy of Excel XP. Mind you, it was just the UPGRADE, not a full version, and still the price was US$120. This is just for the Windows version, there is no Excel for Pocket PCs.
That's the thing I don't understand: Just because your Pocket PC has a small form factor, why do you think that (a) software should be priced at only a fraction of the price for Windows software, and (b) that software development for Pocket PCs is any cheaper or less work-intensive than for Windows software? In fact, developing for Pocket PCs is MUCH HARDER than writing for Windows. Haven't you ever wondered why no big corporation does Pocket PC software?
Martin Kotulla
SoftMaker Software GmbH