Comments on: Premium themes are in for a rough ride

By: Ivan

Ivan — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:47:05 +0000

@Oseser :) I did understand the core message :) and this message What Mimbo Hath Spawned "Oeser has also provided a PayPal link in case anyone wants to compensate him for the effort."

By: Michael Oeser

Michael Oeser — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:56:34 +0000

@Ivan: seems as if you didn´t understand the core message of this article…

By: Thord Daniel Hedengren

Thord Daniel Hedengren — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:15:22 +0000

That may be so, Ivan, but the actual theme wasn’t the point here. I used the BranfordMagazine theme to illustrate the fact that a lot of things that were what got people attracted to premium newsy WordPress themes in the first place, now is out there for free. Mimbo does that to.

By: Ivan M.

Ivan M. — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:17:48 +0000

BranfordMagazine theme is about 85% Mimbo theme by Darren Hoyt, changes made in Bradford Magazine – 3 days by any average coder, copy/paste from 3 themes, so please link to Mimbo theme

By: Thord Daniel Hedengren

Thord Daniel Hedengren — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:49:19 +0000

I didn’t say that they would fail, I said that they were in for a rough ride. Remember, this is a niche that is built upon open source, so the paying incentive is further away than in other niches. Like OS’s for instance, you can’t really compare that since people are used to pay for their OS, be it Windows or OS X, or even the original *nix distros.

By: Jacob Chapel

Jacob Chapel — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:27:09 +0000

I agree that there will always be free alternatives to premium themes. It is short sided to say that those premium themes won’t be able to succeed. If anything the internet economy has taught me, it’s that as long as your product is of quality and not overpriced then you should be able to benefit from the long tail effect. Just because Windows and OS X have free alternatives does not mean they will fail.