Free Updates Period - My Suggestions

[wonder]

@Erel, would you consider changing the Free Updates Period in the following way(s)?

1. The B4X licensed user will have access to n updates instead of a time period.

- I would feel terrible if there were no updates during the two months right after I bought the latest B4A and two weeks later, B4A 6.00 comes out.
My suggestion would be: "The user is entitled to 2 minor updates and 1 major update."
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2. Reward forum and library contributors with an extended period or an increased amount of updates.

- This one is pretty straight forward.
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I don't want to sound cheap, it's just my suggestion.

 

[Erel]

You can always purchase the enterprise version. It includes two years of free upgrades. As an existing customer you can purchase it for almost the same price as the standard version.

 

[sorex]

@wonder : did you really buy a 2 months license each time a new version came out? if you did that for B4A 3, 4 & 5 you would've been cheaper with the 2 years licensing model.

 

[wonder]

I've only bought B4A one time. I'm still rocking 4.00...

 

[sorex]

well, as Erel mentioned you get a discount price when you buy an additional license so it's not as "expensive" as the initial one.

 

[wonder]

Either way, wouldn't the N updates idea still make sense?

 

[Erel]

It makes sense. However I think that the time limit is better and simpler to manage.

 

[sorex]

it depends. sometimes I don't update/upgrade because the added features are not in the line of what I was expecting. (things I probably won't use)

so I would've lost an unwanted count there and mis the next one I needed. (same thing might happen with the others licensing methods ofcourse)

Erel would need to track more than now since it would be counter based.

 

[KMatle]

n could be 100 years or 1h (if there were 5 updates in an hour). So a time period is better (and like all other support and guaranty things always a period).

 

[aidymp]

I just bought some website software cost close to £100 im happy with it, BUT less than a month later they released a MAJOR update and Im NOT to entitled to it! its VERY annoying! So I agree with the time limits.

If you want to extend your licence you can always get a friend or someone to buy a copy with your affiliate code! as I did, with this software the FORUM access is worth much more to me than anything else!