Cause and Effect Reversed?

["Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>]

From: R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr. <rbruceh@attglobal.net>
> >> So when 17 Million can buy it in the next year, you can price it better
> >>than if 1/2 a million buy it over 10 years...
> >Bruce, I think you have cause and effect reversed here.
> >
> No. When you go to market, you figure your cost to produce and the
potential
> market, spread the cost over the market and add profit. Then you have an
> idea about the price and you can then figure if you are priced out, too low
> or about right.

the potential market depends on the final price, so you have an infinite
regress
here. Anyway, that is NOT how mass-market software is priced.


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