Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

I think that is not only not the sole reason, but not even the  
primary reason.   Academic discounts are attempts to get to users  
early, before they've had a chance to commit to a competing platform,  
to make life-long users out of them.   Emapple has made way more  
money selling me upgrades than they did selling me the original  
product.  I agree that most of the time purchases at academic pricing  
are not upgradeable, but sometimes they are.

It's just a matter of how greedy the company wants to be.  I bought  
Dreamweaver and Fireworks from Macromedia for a third the non- 
academic price, so it makes sense that I would have to pay full price  
for the next version.  I don't know how much people on this list paid  
for their "academic" versions of Logic, but these days at Apple,  
academic prices are roughly 90-95% of full sale price.  If that  
doesn't make you eligible for upgrades, then it would make more sense  
for students and teachers to buy competing products that offer either  
upgradeability or a steeper student discount.

I'm not saying that I think Logic's academic license IS upgradeable,  
just that it shouldn't be a foregone conclusion that it isn't.

Gregory



On Sep 16, 2007, at 12:38 PM, Mark Falchook wrote:

> I thought that it was common knowledge that the sole reason that  
> developers
> are willing to give discounts on academic versions of their  
> software is
> precisely -because- it's non-upgradeable. I guess that knowledge  
> was not as
> common as I thought....
>
> -m
>
> > users of an "Academic" version of LP 7x WILL NOT BE ABLE TO  
> EXECUTE THE
> > UPGRADE
>
> 



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