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Re: Pixate Engine Now Free

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Post by loceng » Tue, Jul 02, 2013, 5:31 PM UTC

It would be really helpful to see a wide sample of applications that use it..

Re: Pixate Engine Now Free

#32

Post by DenisM » Tue, Jul 02, 2013, 5:52 PM UTC

So, can you use Pixate to do layout, or only styling?

Re: Pixate Engine Now Free

#33

Post by gearoidoc » Tue, Jul 02, 2013, 5:53 PM UTC

ErikHuisman wrote: post #29

gearoidoc wrote: post #11

I've been following Pixate for a while (plan to use it on my current project) but I'm really confused by this. If a product is generating revenue then why switch it to a free model? To encourage buy-in for the upcoming product or something similar? Just seems like a really odd business decision as I would have gladly paid for the app...

They probably have ideas for additional (paid) services. For these services to make sense they need a very popular plugin. Hence the free model. The investors are taking that risk to create a much larger scale company.

I personally believe they're better off keeping it as a paid service (however small the market may be) and offering the additional services at an additional price.

Now that they've made Pixate free they can't (really) go back to the paid model. Seems like a big punt for me.