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Originally Posted by ksrhee
Would someone who paid $$$$ for Audi R8 would perceive value for money versus someone who paid $$ for Toyota would for their Corolla.
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I'm genuinely trying to understand your point ksrhee, but if you bought a Bentley and discovered that a Mini had a better build quality, would you feel the same way?
As previously stated, I'm not price sensitive but I've learnt a lot about myself from this and similar threads. I am, along with some others, value sensitive.
Back in the 1970's I bought a Rank Xerox word processor that cost more than a house. It was value for money then because there wasn't anything else out there that did anything like it. OK, the years went by and IBM and Olivetti came onto the WP pitch, and prices plummeted. Few people younger than myself even remember that these companies existed in computing, let alone at one time dominated the WP market at such a price point.
If Omni had priced, at say, three or four hundred bucks, or (God-forbid!) three or four thousand, at what point what would even the most loyal users have said "just not worth it"?
I have felt, and maybe I'm alone in this, that Omni has sold premium-priced iDevice Apps and then expected me to be a beta tester! If anyone wants to evaluate a comparison, and can afford it, take a look at iThoughts, TaskPaper or Carbon Fin's Outliner if you want to see what I was hoping Omni would exceed at 2x, 5x, 10x the price, not fail to match.
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Originally Posted by dave_m
We're definitely going to get import into OmniGraphSketcher for iPad as soon as possible. For 1.0 we were faced with a short timeframe...
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Originally Posted by dave_m
We haven't prioritized the data inspector because it's a tough UI question
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Really? Sorry, Dave_M, I don't understand who demanded a short time frame that justified releasing an expensive but inferior product? If anyone wants to download VVI's Graph App (it's free!), you'll see that they managed to implement data import and the ability to edit the underlying data of graph, not blithely say that it's "a tough UI question".
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Originally Posted by Brian
Sorry about that! Documentation update is on our radar screen; just didn't want to hold the iPhone/iOS 4 release until after we completed the docs for OmniFocus for iPad.
So... many... projects... at... same... time! :-)
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Originally Posted by dave_m
I talked to our Documentation Author about this and we should have PDF Manuals for OmniGraffle for iPad and OmniGraphSketcher for iPad available soon. In the meantime sorry for any inconvenience!
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Am I alone in expecting a premium-priced product to be released with up-to-date user info. not the response that equates, in my mind, to "haven't got around to it because we're too busy releasing another expensive App"? I don't believe a current up-to-date user manual at the point-of-sale of a $50 App is too much to expect.
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Originally Posted by Greg Jones
Then ask for a refund in the first 30 days and you've risked nothing.
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You're right Greg. I could have done that. I didn't in the same way I've spent more on bad lunches and not bothered to ask for my money back! However, it does mean that I'm going to be pretty reluctant to give that business any more of my dosh.
It may be that Ken is sitting on a cash mountain and is flitting between the Hamptons, a chateau in France and a yacht moored somewhere in the South Pacific. Hopefully, in that case, for Member's who stick around, he'll maintain Omni as a hobby, even if the revenue stream dries up, which could be due to a significant number of us not being concerned about what Omni charges as long as it's value-for-money! :eek: