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There is one other marketing dilemma that I think PG Music have got with BB. There are their old customers who use BB for practicing, working up tunes, even the first steps in arranging. I put myself in that category and many of us are jazz freaks. But then there are those, the deadly duos etc., who use BB in live gig situations for backing tracks, or at least creating backing tracks. I am not sure that a single product is suitable for these two types of customer. Just a thought



but... its NOT just one product! BIAB and RealBand are similar but different. I think it evolved that way because of exactly what you're saying.


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I think I would be prepared to pay a yearly support/maintenance fee to PG Music in exchange for getting every ‘update’ and ‘upgrade’ (there is a difference) plus all the new Styles, rather than paying individually for each upgrade.



you're right, there *IS* a difference between UPDATE and UPGRADE, but I used the terms interchangeably. My bad. In my model only UPDATES to the core program would be free for life. UPGRADES would be any new content that wasn't part of the original purchase that adds value to the experience of using the product. Buying more real tracks would be an UPGRADE from where you were yesterday.

People who download the free update would naturally expect to get some new functionality. But PG wouldn't have to give EVERY new feature away. FEATURES can be built directly into an executable, or they can be added as a plugin or other external program. As separate entities, such new features could be sold as UPGRADES rather than treated as part of the free update to the core program.



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