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Alan Welsh, User (Posts: 5)
Dec 31, 2019 11:56:34 am EST
I suggest starting an Android Licensing Discussion" to help guide how you can best proceed, where you get the most support from users, while preserving your revenue source. As a software CEO/CTO for over 35 years, it is a difficult issue, but your users can and will help you more than you realize. I'm here because I've been totally disgusted wasting my time trying to use [censored] as a home user, and also see their commercial licensing models to be so abysmal that I would never recommend any company use them, unless required. Lack of flexibility is something that you can beat them with fairly easily, with the proper "internal rule guidance", by using the fixed policies and overriding them quite often, when it makes sense. Growing large numbers of loyal supporters can drive success, and only charging when: it "makes business sense" for the business customer, when they have the free funds available to spend, and both the technical and business decision makers are motivated to try to reward your company.Conrad wrote:
Our mobile client has its own versioning and so far this app is free. We haven't decided yet what licensing model we are going to use for it when we add more significant features to the client (namely, the full-fledged address book). There are different options that we are considering.
(I'd simply call the PCs "Connected CLIENTS", [I'm the "console MASTER, BOSS"These clients can be controlled by phones on an occasional basis, but not for long sessions. They are critical but short times perhaps, but no one in their right mind want to connect to their PCs, ala RDP, and compose anything. I used and still used Meraki's 100 client (was free) host management, and only connected 2 times in 6 years for five minutes, to PCs from a phone. Connect to the phone from the PC?? Only if I have to. Would I pay for either functionality? I doubt it. Yet, that product might be a "check mark" requirement that, although no one would pay for it, but it would help get a large client.
or something like it, connecting TO the CLIENT], to make it easy for new users to
differentiate "hosts" from "agents", which often get confusing, differing functions for
various PC and server companies for both hardware and software. [ONLY engineers
would normally call the UI software, a "client", and the NON UI piece, "server" or
"agent", even if technically correct. When using, "I AM the operator", "and operate or
connect on, or to, OTHER CLIENTS."] )