I think it would be fair that you got your arguments straight before throwing them out.
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There's one thing you should realize: MyMovies is a pretty big operation with much more resources compared to invelos. invelos is essentially a mom & pop operation with limited resources.
My Movies was started as a one person company exactly how DVD Profiler was, I was the only person working on the software until a few years ago - however the income we have on the project have been used specifically for teaming up to provide a better service when we could.
Today, we are two developers in Denmark, two in Ukraine hired in to work with us on iOS and latest Mac OS X, and a developer in Belarus hired in to work with us on on Android.
Then we have seven people working on database maintenance, ensuring that you can report incorrect data, and report missing titles when you are using the mobile applications and do not have the knowledge to contribute from the Windows or Mac software.
If you call that a big operation, fair enough - we call it focus on spending our resouces on extending our service.
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I'm actually pretty surprised that Ken was able to put out an iOS version of DVDP, which kicks a$$ by the
Have you checked with app store ratings how many users who disagree with this, due to continued crashes and other problems? Yet, the application have not been updated for more than a year, it have not been updated to have more than English language in the interface, and so on.
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I have a felling you'll regret having spent $100 on MyMovies when Ken releases his Android version .
Have you checked the pricing structure before sending something like that out?
My Movies for iPhone is $4.99.
My Movies for iPad is $6.99.
My Movies for Android is $4.99.
Compare that to DVD Profiler's $8.99, indeed, if you have both an iPhone and an iPad, My Movies is more expansive with $11.98 ($3 more than DVD Profiler), have you however only got an iPhone, it is $4 less. I would say that makes it around the same.
My Movies Collection Management for Windows, which is what would be the equivilant to DVD Profiler, is free to use, where DVD Profiler is $29.95.
To compare, My Movies for Mac OS X is $14.99, which is 50% of what DVD Profiler costs.
Then My Movies have our software My Movies for Windows Media Center and My Movies for Windows Home Server, something of which DVD Profiler does not have anything similar for either, and therefore it is not really fair to put this into the equation, is it?
The My Movies for Windows Media Center and My Movies for Windows Home Server softwares is correctly based on a point model, where points unlock added functionality.
You are absolutely correct that you can choose to pay for these points, which, if you want the maximum amount of points for any functionality, is $100, you can however also earn the points by contributing data to the service.
How much is it you get for contributing data in DVD Profiler?
Users who have choosen to purchase their points, will for the points they gain, have full unlimited access to:
My Movies for Windows Media Center
My Movies for Windows Home Server
My Movies Collection Management (Free)
My Movies for Mac OS X (Unlimited in it's Free version for users with 2,500 points).
And, this goes for all the machines in a household, and have covered all upgrades to the software since we introduced this option a long time ago.
It is fair that some users do not like this pricing structure - for us it was introduced to allow users to have the chance to benefit to the community, and get full access to the software for free, while others could purchase the points to ensure continued work on the software.
I won't say I am sorry for taking these resouces and using them to extend the service to both Android and Mac OS X, where Invelos decided to do something else with their earned resouces.
Once again, it is only fair if you do not like our service, our software, or us in general, but it would only be fair if you either do not put forward the arguments you do, or keep them to what is the facts.
Best regards,
Brian Binnerup
My Movies