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Originally Posted by bsharp
You may be right. However, the release date is just around the corner. I would think of this as an advance-marketing opportunity. If you're a developer and you're afraid someone might steal your idea, and write a better program in a week or two, perhaps your program is not be that great in the first place.  |
But that is only true if we are assuming that all new software will be released on day one. I am sure there will be a lot of programs that are in the works but will not be available immediately upon the store opening. If I were developing a new note program and released information on what I plan on writing, whether I will have it completed by release day or not, someone else could think about my idea and then start developing it as well. Sure it may not be released as soon as the original one will be but they will still be competing against my concept. I would rather create it and release it as a surprise, then while others then have the opportunity to see it and decide to create their own, I can then take customer input and release modifications of mine to keep up with the competition (hopefully). But if I were to release that information ahead of time then both versions of the same type of program could come out at the same time (roughly) and I could potentially loose a good part of the market as others tried the other version before even giving mine a chance. If that makes sense.
06-18-2008, 03:06 PM
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