rjtd
8th October 2005, 05:19 PM
http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2005/10/06/477999.aspx
No it's not just "greed"
I've seen people complain that upgrades don't happen because the parties involved are just greedy. I guess there's a fine line between "economics" and "greed" but that line does exist. The economics of the situation are that it often just doesn't make sense to provide an upgrade. We're working on both parts of that equation. We're trying to reduce the total upgrade cost, and make upgrading easy enough that more people will make use of it. Whether this work will result in more upgrades being provided in the future remains to be seen. But we hope so.
It's not about figuring out how many people we can get away with annoying. Upgrades don't happen due to a much simpler calculation.
(Total cost of doing the upgrade) / (number of people who will use it) = (unreasonable price)
No it's not just "greed"
I've seen people complain that upgrades don't happen because the parties involved are just greedy. I guess there's a fine line between "economics" and "greed" but that line does exist. The economics of the situation are that it often just doesn't make sense to provide an upgrade. We're working on both parts of that equation. We're trying to reduce the total upgrade cost, and make upgrading easy enough that more people will make use of it. Whether this work will result in more upgrades being provided in the future remains to be seen. But we hope so.
It's not about figuring out how many people we can get away with annoying. Upgrades don't happen due to a much simpler calculation.
(Total cost of doing the upgrade) / (number of people who will use it) = (unreasonable price)