Re: The future for Legacy?

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:08:42 +0000 (UTC), joe2phil@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hello guys an gals , I am not a user of that program , BUT i have a
>comment , Where is it written " you must make changes in your product "
>or is it really just to fool the people into thinking this is " Better Now "
>, we have ' fooled ' with it , Will people buy or stop buying when they
>find the change was mostly superficial ??? , an analogy is the Ford
>Thunderbird , do you remember the 1955-6 edition ? , the 1957-8 ? or that
>bloated thing that came later , People DID NOT buy it ! , now look at the
>2005 Thunderbird , I piece of ART , best thing out of Ford in years , Does
>it sell ???? My question to Legacy
> is :
> Are you changing the prog for the sake of change OR to actually make it
>better ? , Phil
>

Well, I don't use Legacy either... but in my opinion, it's very "good"
for genealogy program vendors to make minor changes in their programs
every year or so. Most if not all of these changes are fairly
superficial, but they are the "tweaks" to the program that the heavy
users of the programs have requested. If the vendor continues to tweak
the program to meet the needs of the heavy users, it will continuously
evolve into a better program for all users. Those who don't need or
appreciate the perhaps subtle changes, don't need to upgrade every
year.... but those who do appreciate the changes can upgrade and
benefit from the changes.I see it as a win-win situation. In fact, I
can't see why anyone would see it any differently, since no one is
forced to upgrade, and in fact, many users go for years without
upgrading, and are perfectly happy.

OTOH, would any serious user of any genealogy program like it if the
vendor made a "drastic" change to the program? My bet would be that
the vendor would lose a large portion of the users, who would simply
decide to stay with what they were comfortable with. (like I did years
ago when PAF decided to make a Windows version)



Charlie Hoffpauir
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/
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