Wil Shipley may be wrong on development
After attentively watching Wil Shipley’s erudite speech at the C4 conference recently, I was struck by his comment at 1:13 stating that users who are usually too cheap to update their Apple software are too cheap to upgrade and/or buy yours?! I’ve been chewing on that thought for two days now, and I’m not quite sure I buy it (no pun intended).
After all, my lack of desire to purchase Leopard has in no way quenched any thirst for new functionality in other software. But I am bummed that I can’t use the new version of both Cover Sutra and Delicious Library 2 without massaging my computer into swallowing the Leopard upgrade.
What are your thoughts on this? Do you find that his statement holds true?
I absolutely understand that Apple will push your product for you if you use the latest and greatest technologies from the Developer tools, but in terms of seeing no correlation between non-upgrade users and business, I’m not entirely convinced of Shipley’s point.
