It's commendable that refunds are being offered.

Letting a product go orphan without a plan to convey the source code and further development, to another developer, is not.

The netflix website is a pain to use, and Netflix Freak serves an important purpose.

The Netflix Freak developer should have arranged a successor developer (even Netflix) PRIOR to making it go orphan; or the source code should be provided to a responsible developer in the Open Source community.

Abandoning a software is serious. Abandoning software reflects negatively upon the entire shareware and commercial developer community.

The impact of software abandonment upon users is very significant and conveys distrust. The greatest word processor for any microcomputer [in its time] was Fullwrite, orphoned by Borland, International after they bought it from Ashton Tate. Heroic efforts on the part of buyers, to persuade Phillipe Kahn to revive it, fell on deaf ears. Another was Claris Emailer, in its time, it was the greatest email software in existance. Apple ordered the product abandoned, and ignored the efforts of the vast "Save Emailer" campaign.

Recommendations:

-- Talk to the Netflix staff, ask them to revive and continue upgrades to Netflix Freak.

-- Talk to certified Apple Developers, ask the Apple staff to help identify a developer that can give the product a future.

-- Talk to open source developers.

-- Recognize, that the Netflix web page sux when it comes to managing the queue list.

-- If necessary, release the source code into the public domain.

-- You have a good product, do the right thing toward getting it a future.

I bought this a couple of years ago and it was great. Since then, NetFlix has done wonders with there website making this just not worth using anymore.

Because no one uses it. :)

I really wanted to like this app and buy it for the sake of supporting the Mac community, but in the end, I just couldn't get into it. For me, managing my que is not a big deal. Browse for movies, add them to the que, rearrange the que every once in awhile. I don't need any management abilities beyond those basics. In that light, the Net Flix website is sufficient.

Imho, on the browsing and searching for movies front (most important to me), NetFlix.com is vastly superior to this application. At NetFlix.com I prefer the little mini blurbs that appear one you rollover the movie title. I also like the way NetFlix.com displays the movie description, user reviews, and various critic reviews all on the same page. It's simply more dynamic, and in my experience, loads faster than NetFlix Freak.

Yes, NetFlix Freak allows easy connections to Rotten Tomatoes, but that's about the only advantage, for my type of usage, that I could find. Simply not worth $15, imho.

Perhaps this app would make sense if I had a household with multiple users and the need to juggle those accounts.

YMMV, give it a try, you may like it. But until NetFlix Freak provides me with a noticeably better browsing experience than NetFlix.com, I'll have to pass.

I've been a member of Netflix for years(must be going on 5 or 6 years now) and It's always been great, though the site wasn't geared toward the way I always liked to move movies around in my queue. Netflix Freak is worth every penny. From the moment I tried it, it worked great. Nabbed the information fast, let me rearange my movies by drag and drop. The value only keeps growing with cut/paste support between queues(I have seperate queue's for tv shows and movies so it's great to be able to shuffle things between them). Granted if you don't watch that many movies from netflix this may not be as useful to you, but bottom line is if you are an avid Netflix user you owe it to your self to buy this app.