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In Reply to: RE: Some people have all the luck ;-) posted by Dawnrazor on April 18, 2024 at 20:37:48:
It's all relative, I suppose.
Roon is $12/mo, which is two or three cups of coffee with tips. You can choose to invest a big chunk upfront and amortize. Or not.
It's less than the cost of a single CD or LP back when I used to buy them, not adjusted for inflation. For many years I bought 3-5 per month, and I was a lot poorer then than now. Roon is a tremendous bargain by my standards, but I get that it's not for everyone.Windows is $140 until the next upgrade; Mac OSX is free forever. MS Office (or whatever they're calling it now) is $100/year; Mac Productivity Suite is free. It's all relative, I suppose.
Here's what price gouging looks like: Adobe Creative Cloud is $60/month, which is ridiculous. The building information modeling and visualization software package that my (former) company uses works out to about $5000 per employee per year. Those companies (Adobe/Autodesk/Lumion/Enscape/Bluebeam) are very diligent about policing licenses, so hacking/cracking is out of the question for a legit business. It's a f-ing outrage, but you can't be competitive in the market without it.
As you put it, "people access value differently".
. . . in theory, practice and theory are the same; in practice, they are different . . .
Edits: 04/20/24 04/20/24
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- Crackin' up - tlea 19:42:51 04/20/24 (4)
- RE: Crackin' up - Dawnrazor 20:25:45 04/20/24 (3)
- Picking nits - tlea 21:15:43 04/20/24 (2)
- RE: Picking nits - Dawnrazor 21:30:11 04/20/24 (1)
- More nits - tlea 22:11:38 04/20/24 (0)
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