CollectedThought

Posted by Slartibartfarst
Dec 31, 2014 at 10:22 PM

Daly de Gagne wrote:
My guess is that this is software that may not be market-ready, or if it is, the marketing plan may not be ready.

Slartibartfarst: You could well be right. This might be a software product that is (say) still arguably in Beta. That’s rather what it looks like to ma, at any rate. Maybe it is market-ready (the market being probably partially represented - at least - by interested people like us in this forum), but it is just the pricing that is wrong for cautious and critical potential buyers/CRIMPers. I’d like to trial it, but I wouldn’t like to put the effort and cognitive surplus into trialling it as the hefty purchase price just doesn’t warrant it with me. I find it off-putting. I also find it off-putting where the stated features and the demos show a product that seems to mimic or parallel aspects of OneNote, but appear to fall short and seem to have been implemented in a kludgy or proprietary manner - even down to the Calendar thing.
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Daly de Gagne wrote:
In software the medium becomes the message. That means the website has to reflect the quality of the product and the product itself.
What we have is another one of these website which looks designed to be a one size fits all for everything from desktops to mobile. And on a desktop or laptop computer it is not inviting.
Slartibartfarst: I don’t know what to say about that. It looks like a POV. Those statements/generalisations might not be supportable. I suppose it could simply be a rip-off.
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Daly de Gagne wrote:
The product descriptions leave me scratching my head, as does the price.
And I’m not clear whether there is a trial period or not. Anyone wanting to introduct their product needs to make that kind of info so clear that a guy like me who may miss the fine print isn’t left scratching this head.
So I wonder if this is an over-hyped piece of software claiming to be all things to all users, much as InfoSelect was/is, though it seems things are pretty quiet at MicroLogic these days.

Slartibartfarst: Yes, well, for what it’s worth, I have to say that I find it all somewhat confuzzling too, though as a long-time user of InfoSelect (one who started with IS5 and stuck with IS8 after trialling IS9 and an IS10 Beta), I would be inclined to say that IS seemed to go off-target until sometime after IS8. IS9 wasn’t too bad, but IS10 though…well, I guess I just don’t understand what was going on there.