m127 wrote:To further put it in perspective, how many years do we have with the Lemur project? 10? So it's not like this peace-share-hippie-love model has not been tried. Lemur is far from what it should be by now. Fact.
Sincerely, I dont think the "peace-share-hippie-love model" is to blame for the sucesss (or not) of the Lemur app - by the way, that is your definition of the model, which I find quite biased. Its not as if Lemur is the only thing based on a community-sharing model. And actually to put it in perspective, in the few years that MaxForLive is around, how many commercial MaxForLive devices are there out there, compared to the free ones?
The fact that there are people willing to buy good templates doesnt change the fact that many more people are willing to buy the app in the first place because there are free templates to download. Developers of paid templates have already stated that the income is not that big and cannot be considered a full-time job (and in fact I believe them), directly implying the amount of people willing to buy templates is not that big as you present it to be.
And one other food for thought would be, regardless if we like it or not, the whole industry is "shifted" towards the amateur side - Liine can't base the viability of their product based on a select few, well-paid proffesionals - this model has been tried too, Midas has been bought by Behringer lol.
I think thats also the main reason Lemur went from a dedicated-hardware solution to an iOS app in the first place. I dont think we can base our assumptions about the project's success by adding the years it was a rather expensive dedicated hardware-software solution (Jazzmutant years).
Looking at it in a strict business model, Sequensomat costs 100euros plus 50 for having bought Lemur (minus 50 if you make a video of it). Now that we are in the era of iOS one would probably say..........
"oh really"?
Its a competitive market out there!
Finally what Im trying to say is,
1. When talking about the morals of the matter, you want to make a good innovative template and sell it? Fine,go ahead, just dont base that decision on the notion "giving away is hippie-communist retarded stuff". This statement is directly insulting and I dont think anyone in here ever called anyone selling templates a money-sucker capitalist pig who will always be empty inside. If you get me.....
2. If we are talking in a strict business-economy model, some things still dont make sense or are not viable solutions!
Goodmorning!