Quote Originally Posted by amoore View Post
The best way to encourage that to happen is to continue to upgrade so Xara & Co have the resources to do the sort of development you want to see. Development takes money — a lot of money. And the cost of upgrading is minimal compared to the outlay for the apps you refer to as "more professional".
I would upgrade the product if they offered me a reason to upgrade it. I use Xara as a Vector Application. So why ugrade when the only thing that is getting developed is the photo aspect, which it does mediocre and there are free applications out there that does it just as good or better.

So due to the trends over the past few versions, I can see they are moving away from the vector aspect of there program and concetrating on the photography side of it. By buying the product Im encourage further developement in that aspect of the application.