Marketing does what marketing does to get eyeballs to the site to try and sell a few licenses. I donāt hold that against them. It is Pi day (3.14) after all.
Yes, and we have some customers, which turned off auto renew months ago.
So for those that still use Xojo, have an older version in use and need a current one, this may be a welcome offer to grab a current license at a discount.
At most I would, at the end of my first year (soon I believe) get a one-platform desktop license for Windows but even that I would probably put off unless there was some sort of bug or inability of the last version I downloaded (probably 2023 v1) to run on a new version of Windows or some such, AND which they had actually fixed (a couple of big IFs). Later I might switch to macOS to re-backport the app there if I end up actually needing it for my own projects. Or in other words the minimum needed to keep a single internal-use app going. I do not see any good business reason to keep developing in Xojo, nor even really a good personal reason, given the number of unresolved bugs and evidence of embedded abandonware within the platform, the lack of a credible path forward in mobile or web, etc.
I guess this train went off before years. look what happened to too many Customers. I do not believe that youāll get back the Customers which changed to another System. And the strategy of Xojo is: getting new Users. So what? Xojo will exist and further be available. Until when? Nobody knows.
Geoff Perlman is starting to see the results of ditching Pro Devs. Less Pros = less testing = more bugs. Worse and worse as time goes on. Just imagine what a mess Android is likely to beā¦