MY upgrade price is £299. At current exchange rates that is $391.
If I deduct the 20% UK VAT from the £299, then the base cost is £249, which is $326
VAT is simply like our sales tax in PA. There are many other taxes applied to goods between countires. There was a rather detailed explanation given a while back on this forum, done in U.S. dollars (before the change) and I was amazed at the tarrifs that European and Asian countries placed on imports. I saw prices for new licenses as highg as $1,500 U.S. in an Eastern European country. How do you do business like that.
The sheer lack of customization options for the interface (shortcuts, tool bars, etc) mostly has to do with Corel adhering to Apple's "Human Interface Guidelines." Corel worked with Apple on making this version of CorelDRAW a 100% top-to-bottom Mac OSX program. The end result is a version of CorelDRAW that is very different from the Windows version. Anyone who used the Windows version extensively (and did things to further customize the work space) would have a hard time getting used to this version.
I can't use the stock Windows version CorelDRAW as is. I always have to change several little things in the interface, such as adding the "one shot zoom" tool to the zoom tool bar. I would be going nuts using the Mac version if I couldn't at least use that.
FWIW, Adobe's applications do not comply fully with Apple's Human Interface Guidelines. An act of Adobe to do so fully would be disruptive to application interface standards Adobe has had for upwards of 30 years.
Regarding cross platform licenses, some of Corel's competition doesn't tie users down to a specific platform. An Adobe Creative Cloud subscription allows activation on up to 2 computers; the platform doesn't matter. Both could be Macs, Win PCs or a mix of both.
Bobby Henderson said:I can't use the stock Windows version CorelDRAW as is. I always have to change several little things in the interface, such as adding the "one shot zoom" tool to the zoom tool bar. I would be going nuts using the Mac version if I couldn't at least use that.
Zoom One-Shot is so important to my style of navigation that I have it assigned to one of the auxiliary buttons on my mouse!
The only way Corel are going to make a success of this project is by offering a dual license and probably chuck in a copy of Parallels too. So those transitioning form Parallels to native can always go back, and those purchasing native can revert to a PC version on Mac/Parallels.
At the moment those commenting most on here are those using the PC version running under parallels on a Mac. And of course they're not happy, the experience is poor in comparison it seems.