[IT_Architect]

I read through the capabilities of Call Firewall and MagiCall. If you don't mind losing the first ring on every call, and the only option is to send them to voice mail, Call Firewall works. If you don't want to lose the first ring, and you want the flexibility to have intelligent rule sets that can trash the calls or send them to voice mail, then you need the $24.95 for MagiCall.

Without any viable freeware competition, there is no reason that MagiCall should be FreeWare. The product probably took a pretty good chunk of someone's life in order to achieve the capabilities it has today. However, for a product that requires an investment in time, plus the fact that it definitely is NOT a must-have, I would GUESS that pricing it at $9.95 would make them more money.

What did I do? Call Firewall doesn't do enough to make it worth putting on my phone and putting up with the downsides. I downloaded MagiCall, but never installed it because:
1. What it provides is not worth $24.95 to me. Thus, I decided I shouldn't be wasting my time installing and learning it.
2. There is always some risk that it may mess up something else on the phone which may require a hard reset and restore.
3. Because these types of products take up constant memory and CPU resources, they are at higher risk of ending up becoming shelfware over the long haul. A $9.95 gamble is unattractive already, but the risk is mitigated to some degree by the demo period. A $24.95 gamble finished off my interest.
*When you add these together, spending $9.95 would be enough of a hard sell. At $24.95, it was easy for me to simply forget about it, and not even try it. MagiCall had my attention, but they lost the sale.