by Blackcat12 » Sun Apr 08, 2018 10:06 am
For the life of me, I cannot understand the logic or strategy for continued beta releases and development for MMW4. This version was released over 7 years ago. The entire licensing and revenue model makes no sense as there is no incentive to buy lifetime licenses and there has to be decreased revenue from lower sales of licenses due to the long cycle between releases. The business plan just does not make sense financially or strategically.
This is a fantastic app that I gladly bought my license for years ago, but it is quite frustrating to see continued beta releases for a 7 year old app while v5 continues in public Alpha for over a year, and may see an update once every few months. The sense I get is the that the developers are not able to focus full time on completing the next version and opening the next revenue stream due to the continued development of MMW4. It has been over 2 months since the last Alpha even, yet we have another MMW4 beta.
Case in point, the last official release of MMW4 was at the end of January this year, and now we have a new beta out already. This indicates that the developers are not concentrating on MMW5 Alpha, at least not to the maximum degree possible, as the last update the first week of February.
I love the app and MMW5 is looking good. Just wish we could see some focused development and more a frequent releases. Maybe even reach beta status!
For the life of me, I cannot understand the logic or strategy for continued beta releases and development for MMW4. This version was released over 7 years ago. The entire licensing and revenue model makes no sense as there is no incentive to buy lifetime licenses and there has to be decreased revenue from lower sales of licenses due to the long cycle between releases. The business plan just does not make sense financially or strategically.
This is a fantastic app that I gladly bought my license for years ago, but it is quite frustrating to see continued beta releases for a 7 year old app while v5 continues in public Alpha for over a year, and may see an update once every few months. The sense I get is the that the developers are not able to focus full time on completing the next version and opening the next revenue stream due to the continued development of MMW4. It has been over 2 months since the last Alpha even, yet we have another MMW4 beta.
Case in point, the last official release of MMW4 was at the end of January this year, and now we have a new beta out already. This indicates that the developers are not concentrating on MMW5 Alpha, at least not to the maximum degree possible, as the last update the first week of February.
I love the app and MMW5 is looking good. Just wish we could see some focused development and more a frequent releases. Maybe even reach beta status!
