[prodikl]

i remember back when my dad bought lotus 123 for like $60 at the local store. that was a fair value

i think the app store and ad-supported software really devalued a lot of forms of software for most lay people. my wife still gasps when i spend a buck on software

[ghaff]

Just looked at a random PC Magazine from the mid-eighties. Lotus 1-2-3 was $319, which is about $700 in today's money. And that was by no means an outlier. A lot of PC software used to be very expensive.