>While this may be good for pocketbooks, it has also probably destroyed desktop mail clients for non-enterprise as a market for a software company that wants to pay landlords or mortgages in something besides appreciation.
Does not seem to have stopped other companies, from the Omni Group to Pixelmator. And didn't iA sold hundends of thousands of copies of it's editor when other editors where 1/5 to 1/10 the price? If it solves a need, people will pay for quality.
Not to mention that today's $10 correspond to 10 to 30 times more people using Macs than the times of $50-$100 email clients did.
Does not seem to have stopped other companies, from the Omni Group to Pixelmator. And didn't iA sold hundends of thousands of copies of it's editor when other editors where 1/5 to 1/10 the price? If it solves a need, people will pay for quality.
Not to mention that today's $10 correspond to 10 to 30 times more people using Macs than the times of $50-$100 email clients did.