Mar 25
Re: MacHeist →
Thing is, it’s not a good argument at all. The apps in the bundle are great (at least several of the ones i’ve played with). But I never would have known that without this bundle.
It’s not that I never download demos. I know most of these apps had free demos. It’s that I simply *never would have known about them*.
This promotion, while it essentially cost the developers money, has brought at least two apps front-and-center in my brain. I already love them. I’m already an evangelist. Is that kind of marketing a good strategy for a developer, mac or otherwise?
Absolutely it is.
I’m not interested in arguing the specifics of the MacHeist deal with developers. I’m sure that nobody will argue the core of it: these applications are being sold at a _steep_ discount. My point is whether it’s a good idea, as conscientious consumers, to accept such steep discounts on the products that we use and love. My argument is that it’s not.
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good engineer, but he goes way off...deep end here. It’s
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Thing is, it’s not...good argument at all. The apps in the bundle are great (at least...
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An update from Marco Arment who’s heard from
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heykurt reblogged this from tedroden and added:
You just need to look at the name to get that from macheist.com “Macheist.” “Mache ist.” Which is can be literally...
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appreciate your point, but you’ve absolved the developers of any responsibility. Why is it up
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tedroden reblogged this from pile and added:
immoral! More importantly, many of...apps are crap, which I would not have bought...
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pile reblogged this from marco and added:
Of course it is! If...less, I’ll buy it...there’s a moral...
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It’s hard to conduct...civil discussion when one of its business partners is such a...
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