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- From: Paul Chan <paul>
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- Subject: Re: FW 5
- Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 12:15:38 GMT
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- jpeacock@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Jason Peacock) wrote:
- >Jason Compton (jcompton@flood.xnet.com) wrote:
- >: I think the real problem here is that Softwood is GIVING to Windows users
- >: what Amiga users have been paying for. Actually, they've been paying for
- >: it, hoping for more import/export filters, but not getting them. Now
- >: they're giftware to anyone who's made a Windows95 purchase.
- >
- > Well, I've only been charged $25 for each upgrade of Final Writer.
- > Win95 users of are being charged $25 to get the "full" version of
- > Final Writer. The only thing Win95 users are getting out of it is
- > that they don't have to make the initial $100 or so payment on the
- > product like Amiga users do. However, if Woody is telling us the
- > truth, there's hardly been a new product purchase of Final Writer
- > (in North America anyway) for the last couple of years. Their
- > current base of users are the same ones from 2-3 years ago.
-
- At the moment, I think the move to "give away" FW5 to PC users is interesting.
- It`s certainly good to propagate the FW program across the PC sphere of use but
- I must question the usefulness of doing this as nearly every PC sold will at
- least have a version of MS Works for Windows or similar. Why should people
- change over, especially when many of them will have a copy (legit or not) of MS
- Word anyway?
-
- >
- > My opinion for the reason for the existance of a Win95 version of
- > Final Writer is that Softwood is hedging its bet that Amiga users
- > will stay Amiga users and that AT will succeed. I suspect that
- > the majority of Amiga users who have jumped ship (at least all the
- > ones I know or know about) have gone to Win3.1/Win95. Softwood
- > could be making an attempt to retain their customer base by
- > releasing their flagship product to the platform that Amiga users
- > are most likely to jump to.
-
- If I were in Softwood`s position, I would certainly hedge my bets. Good
- business practice, IMHO. And perhaps Softwood should consider a conversion to
- MacOS 8/Copland while they`re at it! ;)
-
- Seriously, can Woody tell us if FW6 will be making an appearance late this year
- as a native PPC/fat binary on a CD?
-
-