That is all way too much money.
If they want more adoption, they need to be under the $100 mark.
If they want more adoption, they need to be under the $100 mark.
I guess you proved the original point of this thread.
You see this in other professions. A car mechanic doesn't want to take there car to someone else. A doctor tries to avoid general checkups with other doctors. A realitor will sell their own house. A grass cutter doesn't hire someone to cut his lawn. The person who makes lawnmowers doesn't buy one he makes one even if it takes longer.
Also making the reverse assertion true too: that client has a fool for a lawyer :-)
Of course, many unsuspecting non-lawyer clients also have fools for lawyers; it's hard to tell whether or not your lawyer is any good (unless his name is Saul Goodman)
However, my current job is developing a voice response system for restaurant drive-thrus. I don't have time to write my own IDE right now!
So I farm that out to JetBrains and get to use all of their awesome work for less than fifty cents a day.
If that's too much, their free versions are very good too.
I may also take exception to this:
> A doctor tries to avoid general checkups with other doctors.
Wouldn't the opposite be true? As far as I know, every psychiatrist has a psychiatrist, every counselor has a counselor (or should), and I would guess that every doctor has a doctor.
A doctor is more likely than the rest of us to have particular insight into their own health, but I don't think they try to do it all alone.
Of course I'm only speaking for myself. If anyone prefers to write all their own tools, more power to them!
Even if you make 30k a year, $200 for access to a variety of tools you rely on to do your job is a no brainer.
I pay more for Apple products because they bring a lot of value.
I don't see the value for many developer tools at their price.
Especially when the options are free.
A car lets me do a lot of things, not just a single thing.
I think development tools are overpriced. Under a $100 I can see. Over that is just too much.
This is not to say that I don't pay for tools; I subscribe to the full Jetbrains set among other things. It's just that that wasn't as simple of a decision as you present it.