[BwanaZulia]

After all these pages, the one true answer to the question is "Because it can be." Obviously people are willing to buy it and obviously OmniGroup has put in a lot of time developing it and needs to both recover cost and do further development.

Again, I love OmniGroup, own EVERYTHING except for Dazzle (can't find a need) but still think OmniFocus was a little high.

Looking at the upcoming pricing of OmniGraffle 5 ($99.95 for an professional UPGRADE) I think OmniGroup is clearly trending to higher priced software. For some, this will be too much. For others, it is a tool that is invaluable. I mean, that is almost the price of OSX 10.5 Leopard.

At the end of the day, it is a free market and if someone comes in and builds a OF or OG clone for half the price or Open Source, they will lose.

I have noticed, that over the years, my software purchase have gone WAY up.

BZ