Applian CoolClock

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.handango.com/brainstore/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=311&productId=78929' target='_blank'>http://www.handango.com/brainstore/...productId=78929</a><br /><br /></div><img src="http://www.handango.com/pictures/48299/rcc160x160.jpg" /><br /><br />"Get the Ultimate Multimedia Alarm Clock for your Pocket PC! Turn your Pocket PC into an awesome rich media alarm clock. CoolClock lets you wake up to music or recorded voice. You can set alarms that play MP3, Windows Media, WAV files or voice recordings. CoolClock displays designer animated clocks authored in Flash. Eight clocks are included, and more are being designed every day."<br /><br />You can <a href="http://download.handango.com/shareware/48299/rccsetup.exe">download a trial version</a> or purchase the full version for <a href="http://www.handango.com/brainstore/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=311&productId=78929">$19.95.</a>

[jeffmd]

as much as alot of peeps wanted a cool alarm program like this.. 20 bucks? geez...

[PJE]

I would have been interested, but $20 is far too expensive. $5 would have been more like it.

For $20 I'd expect it to be supplied with a small set of amplified amplified speakers so it would actually be able to wake me up!

PJE

[RedRamage]

I don't think my PPC would ever be loud enough to wake me up.

[Vincent M Ferrari]

I was thinking the same thing. $20 for an alarm clock program? 8O

Sometimes, I wonder about Applian. They come out with cool software and then they charge too much for it. I like their stuff a lot, but who's gonna pay $20 for a program that'll play an MP3 instead of a tone for an alarm?

Nice program, but it needs to be about $10 cheaper before it's reasonable. :razz:

[dh]

For half the price, Super Alert has really good alarm features and you can certainly wake up to (or sleep through) your music files.

[PocketPC Addict]

I don't think my PPC would ever be loud enough to wake me up.

I guess I'm lucky - or unlucky depending how you look at it. I'm such a light sleeper, my Pocket PC wakes me up every morning and it's set only on volume level 2!

[GoldKey]

Agree, this is a $5 software product, not $20.

[egads]

For $5 you can go out and buy a nice travel clock that is loud and has a snooze that you don't have to worry about cracking the screen when you reach over and slam your hand down trying to shut the little bugger up. Plus you never have to worry about if your alarm clock is charged or if its in need of a soft reset (My Casio EM500 failed to wake me up once because it needed a reset :zzz: ).

How many people are coherent enough in the morning to pick up a PDA grab the stylus and turn off a alarm :?:

[pdaided]

I was sitting here going over my receipts from yesterday and totally agreeing with all of these comments about price. I then picked up my receipt from lunch yesterday at an average restaraunt for an average meal that I paid $9 dollars for including tip.....
Looking at it this way, 20 bucks for a program somebody wrote that will improve my life every day seems rather reasonable now.

just thinkin'

pdaided

[bjornkeizers]

Yep. $20 is definitely way too much. Not only do I already own a good alarm clock, it only cost me about $6! I can buy four alarm clocks for $20... so I doubt they'll sell very many of these at that price. Make it $5 and I *might* consider buying it.

[mbeatle]

my receipt from lunch yesterday
What does the price of lunch have to do with the price of software? It seems a silly comparison. Should we make all our buying decisions based on lunch equivalents?

[Programmer]

my receipt from lunch yesterday
What does the price of lunch have to do with the price of software? It seems a silly comparison. Should we make all our buying decisions based on lunch equivalents?

If I do that I'd never afford another PocketPC. :roll:

Let's see: I went to El Pollo Loco yesterday and spend $4.93. Damn, still not enuff to buy a PocketPC. Maybe next time.

Robert

[ikesler]

For half the price, Super Alert has really good alarm features and you can certainly wake up to (or sleep through) your music files.

I agree........ I have used SA for over a year and love it!!!!! It wakes me up every morning, controls all alarms/reminders on my device and works flawlessly with Pocket Informant........... it's great and cheap too. :D

But I have heard there are some troubles with 2003, if I am not mistaken.

[pdaided]

What does the price of lunch have to do with the price of software? It seems a silly comparison. Should we make all our buying decisions based on lunch equivalents?


All I'm saying is the Ten Bucks that just gave me a convenience based meal with short term satisfaction is the same Ten Bucks that I spend anywhere else. Buying decisions are all equivalent because the medium of exchange is the same.

And remember I said.........just thinkin'

pdaided

history: 3650, 568, 3835, 3955, 2215

[BugDude10]

Coming soon from Applian: PowerCheck -- a vital app designed to tell you whether your Pocket PC device is on or off. Only $15!

Seriously, though, $20 is just too much. I like Applian apps, but I wouldn't pay more than $5 for this. (I just don't use my docked PDA as a desk clock, and the built-in alarm wakes me up just fine.)

My $0.02.

B.D.

[applian]

Thanks to everybody commenting on the price of CoolClock.

Our philosophy is to encourage people to purchase our value bundles -- our Super Bundle has 20 programs, and costs just $39.95. This includes CoolClock, as well as ThemeDream, PicturePerfect, CoolCalc and many of our other popular titles.

In this way, you can get CoolClock and 19 other programs at an average price of $2, which is the best deal going.

You can check out the Super Bundle at our site at www.applian.com.

[Vincent M Ferrari]

Our philosophy is to encourage people to purchase our value bundles -- our Super Bundle has 20 programs, and costs just $39.95.

That's almost like saying, "We know you'd like new tires, but if you buy them with the car, it knocks the price of the tire down to nothing. :?

Don't get me wrong; Replay Radio and Picture Perfect are two of my favorite programs, and I don't think I could live without them, but to say someone who wants a clock program can get it cheaper by spending a total of $40 on apps they don't need sounds a little silly.

You guys make great programs, but your pricing is a little high.

Don't mean to be rude, but that's just my opinion...