Regarding pricing policy of "OS4.1.7"

[chris]

Of course, it's still up to the user if they want to spend their money.  Choice is a wonderful thing.  I'd honestly happily buy FE if I could be sure that if after that, if I bought 4.2 that I wouldn't be needing to pay another 30E for every 4.2 Update.  I spend more on coffee and meals at work per day than what FE costs, so it's not a matter of cost.  The cost is more than reasonable as long as every little update in the future isn't a pay for deal.

But it's still an in line, in rev. update.  I'm still being asked to pay 30 euros for an update to 4.1, an operating system that I already paid well over 100 euros for in the first place.  I'd be just as annoyed if MS was charging for in-line, in rev. updates (aka Service Packs).  This being said, it's one heck of a bargain for people entering the ecosystem, but I fear the future of all this and I am sincerely debating getting out of the OS4 game entirely, as in selling my OS4 machines outright.  That really annoys me in itself, since I'm finally developing for the platform and I'm having great fun with it :/  Of course, it's my option entirely

What I fear is I'd pay 30e for FE, then: 4.2 comes out and I'd need to spend another 100e or better on it (which is nearly twice what I paid for OEM Windows quite recently, btw) - then perhaps OS 4.2 Update 1 comes out and I'd be expected to pay another 30 euros for 4.2 Update 1, then another 30 E for 4.2 U2, another 30E for 4.2 Update 3, so on and so forth.

I fear getting milked out of my hard earned cash like I'm a stolen goat every single minuscule update.

I don't have a particular problem with their pricing policy, however I think it could be a bit more coherent. I agree with the above.

OS4.1fe should have been named 4.1.7 or even 4.2. That way psychologically you're not paying for an update to something you already own (and have been getting free updates to), but are buying a new version of the OS.

Anything previously announced for OS4.2 could be pushed back to OS4.3, and as a goodwill gesture the people entitled to a free OS4.2 would also get some discount off OS4.3 - or the features promised for OS4.2 could be added later as free updates.

That's how I would have handled it anyway, none of this "final edition" bollocks.

[chris]

@Chris

You forget that AmigaOS 4.2 has some contractual obligations for X1000 owners on the part of A-eon .

Which I guess is why they aren't calling it 4.2, but that doesn't stop them calling it 4.1.7, 4.1.1 or whatever.

They really shouldn't have promised things for 4.2 when 4.1 had already been out for a number of years, and the things being promised weren't trivial.

[chris]

im speaking about the initial reactions based on assumptions, that 4.1fe will be a paid _update_.

Calling it "OS4.1 Final Edition" makes it look like a paid update.

[chris]

but the reason to promise these things in first place must have been exactly, that the were not trivial, otherwise they would not have any much result on the audience. the mistake is to treat these as actual technical goals, while it seems that instead they are simply publicity arguments. deployed somewhere of far horizont and moving with it they are even more effective publicity than if they were actually ever achieved, because then you would have to create another decoy.

Even more reason to promise them for OS5.0 to give a lot of breathing room. Nobody cares if OS5.0 comes after OS4.1 or if we go all the way up to OS4.9 first.