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Why use ed if you have cat?
Why use cat if you have a magnetized needle and a steady hand?
Why use a magnetized needle and a steady hand when you have an IBM 029 keypunch station?
Why nobody pays for Sublime?
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Re: Why nobody pays for Sublime?
#32Because it's OSS, and there are at least 10 variation products also on the market, namely Brackets, Visual Studio Code, ATOM, etc.
Re: Why nobody pays for Sublime?
#33My guess is that Jon Skinner was more interested in capturing users to help him make a great editor than in maximizing the capture of money from fewer customers.
If he wanted to maximize the capture of money, instead of nagware it should be a exploding trial, perhaps for days of use instead of calendar days.
Probably the right price for Sublime Text is $49/year with upgrades included or, if not tecnically feasible, $99 permanent with no upgrade discounts. It might seem counterintuititive not to offer upgrade discounts, but Someone who has paid you once the full price is a lot more likely to pay you again the full price for a new version, especially at sub-$100 price point.
Re: Why nobody pays for Sublime?
#34Because I already got burned once paying for TextMate and having the development basically die. The same pattern seems to be happening with Sublime Text. So I finally just started using Emacs instead. Setup my keybindings so they're Mac/Sublime Text like and wrote a little custom frame/window manager in elisp to make the application behave the way I want, and I'm free from having to worry about one of my core tools t…
I felt the same way. Bought a license for 2, then for 3. Then immediately watched a lack of updates for nearly a year (or any of substance). But the 3 "dev" channel is pretty active currently: http://www.sublimetext.com/3dev
None of that changes your point, that you're still at the mercy / whim of a developer.
Re: Why nobody pays for Sublime?
#35Is the premise of this question valid? I've noticed about a 50/50 split anecdotally. Does anybody know the real #s? (What % of users pay?)
Re: Why nobody pays for Sublime?
#36Because I already got burned once paying for TextMate and having the development basically die. The same pattern seems to be happening with Sublime Text. So I finally just started using Emacs instead. Setup my keybindings so they're Mac/Sublime Text like and wrote a little custom frame/window manager in elisp to make the application behave the way I want, and I'm free from having to worry about one of my core tools t…
I felt the same way. Bought a license for 2, then for 3. Then immediately watched a lack of updates for nearly a year (or any of substance). But the 3 "dev" channel is pretty active currently: http://www.sublimetext.com/3dev None of that changes your point, that you're still at the mercy / whim of a developer.
> you're still at the mercy / whim of a developer
Well, aren't we all?
Re: Why nobody pays for Sublime?
#37Because it's OSS, and there are at least 10 variation products also on the market, namely Brackets, Visual Studio Code, ATOM, etc.
no its not?
Re: Why nobody pays for Sublime?
#38Honestly, I perceive the price as too high, even though I use it day in and day out. The price is also above my imaginary software impulse buy level. If it were $19, I would have already impulse bought a copy. If it turned into trialware that disabled features after a certain amount of time, I'd ditch it and use another editor. Lame, but I'm being honest.
I agree. $70 seems steep for a text editor, no matter how good it is. I use Textpad, which I got my company to pay for years ago, but it's much cheaper. Maybe it's not as good as Sublime, but it's good enough. Since I know the nag screen would bug the heck out of me, and I'm too cheap to pony up $70 (and not willing to go to the trouble of talking my boss into paying for it), I'm not tempted to even try Sublime.
Re: Why nobody pays for Sublime?
#39I paid, and I use it daily, but I have noticed the drop-off in support lately.
Re: Why nobody pays for Sublime?
#40Software developers are such a bunch of minging cheapskates. Giving the potential for high earnings it is a wonder why so many developers are so stingy. Paying $5000 - $10000 for a set of tools which their living depends on seems to be so much why?
How much do builders, cab drivers for instance, pay for their tools? Why does a group of people who consider themselves to be a profession have so much problem paying for tools? How much does a doctor, a lawyer, or dentist need to shell out in order to start practising?
This attitude among software developers needs to change. It is no wonder so many software tools are of such poor quality.
I am sure a lot of Sublime and Textmate users easily pay $100 for a night out on the town, so why should paying such an amount for a tool their living depends on be such a big issue.?