PWARE Partial Post: Someone here posted quite recently a link to a list of N3V personnel and the various jobs they do. I was interested to see that there appears to be only two (2) programmers on the N3V staff - whether they are full time only or if others were employed on an as-needed casual basis I do not know. But for the list of "must have now" or "should have been implemented yonks ago" and "bring them back now" features listed here and in other threads over the years, two programmers seems woefully inadequate. It seems obvious to me that N3V have two main choices:-
The first choice would see an enormous increase in costs which would be passed onto the consumers (us) which will inevitably lead to more angry posts. The second choice would keep the prices as low as possible but would delay (even permanently) some users "must have" features, with more angry posts..........
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Assuming this is mostly accurate it MAY show why subscriptions are the new marketing direction. Predictable revenue level, ability to more borrow money at better rates and hire staff to juice up existing products and then move on to another round of some new grand design.
- employ many more staff (not just programmers) to bring all these vital features on line as soon as possible, or
- continue to allocate priorities and resources using existing staff as efficiently as possible.
The first choice would see an enormous increase in costs which would be passed onto the consumers (us) which will inevitably lead to more angry posts. The second choice would keep the prices as low as possible but would delay (even permanently) some users "must have" features, with more angry posts..........
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Assuming this is mostly accurate it MAY show why subscriptions are the new marketing direction. Predictable revenue level, ability to more borrow money at better rates and hire staff to juice up existing products and then move on to another round of some new grand design.
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