firelock

My wife has been wanting to replace her old iPad mini 4 for several months now, but I have to tell her to wait until this update happens.

There is nothing wrong with employees expressing their opinions to management. I know our team nearly universally desires to continue to WFH. As their manager I know that they are more productive and happier, why is this a bad thing? I think businesses who ignore WFH will find themselves at a competitive disadvantage in the future. You can fight the future, but the future will always win.

I just ordered a Backbone One for my son. It will be a good opportunity to try out Game Pass. He doesn’t play as many online shooters anymore so I don’t think a little lag with Jedi Fallen Order or the Halo single player campaigns will be that big a deal.

If Apple offers this it will be essentially a “desktop” iPad aimed at artist studios, designers, architects, etc.

I citpeks said:

Rayz2016 said:

Wow. FileMaker got real expensive real quick. 

FMP hasn't been "cheap" for a long time, at least in terms of perpetual licenses.  The real kicker is when they decided to target business users, and adopted a subscription model.  That resulted in an individual perpetual license jumping from a couple hundred to $540.

d_2 said:

I sure miss the original FileMaker, I used it professionally in the early 90’s  - it was very intuitive yet powerful, and did everything I needed (and more) - I have tried the options on the Mac App Store without any luck meeting my needs 

As did I, for internal company solutions, not as a developer for hire.  Started with 2.1.

After that, I continued to use it for personal purposes, at least until jumping off the train due to the update costs, even long before they jacked it to $540.

It's a lament I've heard from other former users in the same boat.  Know and like the program, but the high cost couldn't be justified for personal use.  And with the business shift, they kissed off such users altogether.

This pricing structure seems like a mistake to me. FMP is still a niche product, probably more so now than it was in the early 2000s when I used it. It’s strength was that tech-savvy non-developers could purchase it for a few hundred dollars and tinker together some really awesome custom solutions. Then they would convince their boss to buy a bunch of licenses for the whole office to deploy it. It’s now priced at a level where no one is going to buy it individually just to try out. It would instead have to be purchased with a specific business purpose in mind and multiple licenses. For a product this niche it doesn’t seem like a winning approach.