Mac software payment

Many readers have asked this question why the software on Windows is free of charge and Mac is only available for payment? So I decided to write this topic yesterday. As a result, I was disgusted with the idea of critical thinking on Weibo just now. I sent a microblog with the following content:

With the help of my son, I installed a PP assistant for my iPad jailbreak. I thought it was hard to buy software with money instead of money, A non-jailbreaking apple is just a new apple!

My feelings:
1. All the good words of critical/thinking/enlightenment are insulted by this product.
2. This son is also very poor and has no idea what to steal from an early age.

Okay, let's talk about the software payment issue today.
Some friends used to see that I used pixelmator to process images and asked me where I downloaded the images. I said that I was using paid software in the app store. He said, you need to pay for everything on Mac. You can see that Photoshop on Windows is free of charge.
At that time, I collapsed. The PS software, whether on win or Mac, was relatively expensive personal software, but the domestic piracy was serious. Many people did not know that this was a paid software. Doctor's cup.

The piracy of windwos and office software is prevalent. I personally think that there is still a certain relationship with Microsoft's pricing policy and Monopoly Policy. Ten years ago, the price of a set of Windows and Office systems was almost the same as the current price, there was still pressure on the working class at that time, But piracy formed a comprehensive monopoly market for Microsoft. Microsoft did not earn much money in the Chinese market anyway, and people could afford this loss, after all, there is a broad international market.

Individual software development vendors in China are terrible. Piracy has ruined our general software for ten years. Companies that made general software in the early days either reverse or switch to enterprise software and the Internet. When I was in Hong En software, the personal education software we developed only 10% or a lower share of the entire market was genuine, and all others were pirated. A large number of general-purpose software companies have died. Kingsoft, a large software company, has survived and developed, but it does not rely on general-purpose software to make profits.

In this environment, Chinese users are also happy to perform piracy and piracy, but they do not know that the national software industry is destroyed.

In contrast, ifProgramThe developer has developed a good personal software, which can basically be used for food and clothing. For example, textmate1.0 on Mac sold tens of thousands of copies and 39 euros in total, after calculating the income of this programmer, he finally made textmate 2 open-source, because he didn't need to sell any money, and the brother basically no longer improved textmate after becoming a rich man, A large number of fans started to join the development, and new features are constantly increasing. At present, the development is very good. This is a very benign ecosystem, and it is also the reason why a large number of programmers are turning over the wall.

I have also used piracy, but I always know that this is not correct. To put it bluntly, it is no big difference from stealing. After switching to Mac, we found that there were a large number of free software available on Mac, and the paid software was completely affordable. The operating system was only 100 RMB, pages, Keynote, and numbers similar to office can be separately purchased (128). Many other personal software products are several yuan, dozens, and dozens of pieces. Only a few professional software programs are rarely used, so after I use Mac, I gradually become a genuine user. I think this is part of the reason why a large number of common users and programmers are switching to Mac.

My Opinion on software piracy and payment is:
1. Piracy is definitely not correct. If you use pirated software, at least you must be embarrassed. If you are a poor student and learn how to develop and use pirated software, who will blame you? However, you must never believe in the "critical thinking enlightenment", not only by yourself, but by mistake.
2. programmers also want to eat. Every piece of software that each of you uses on your computer is a programmer's line of work.Code.
3. Use genuine copies, especially programmers, as far as possible on the basis of economic strength. Why do programmers count on others if they do not support programmers?