This is offered (to the developer) in the spirit of respect for your talents:
While this looks to be a worthwhile app, as always, we'd love it if developers who use the App Store would take a cue from other programmers, like Russell over at SweetP Productions (Cookie), and provide a demo which can be downloaded at the developers site, for trial, prior to purchase.
Mac developers have been doing this with their wares for some fifteen plus years, with great success I might add.
I know you guys are feeling the pinch in sales, because I have many developers confide this to me.
Take the hint: provide a test drive, before asking us to buy the car.
It's not the $1 here or the $4.99 there:
It's all of them added up over time that keeps many of us from availing ourselves of your programs, especially when we can't try them out first.
Great success in fifteen years means impact. I released a software called Cryptix, 6 years ago and harmed by piracy... Developing, spending time, load of time... for a result, spoiled... It s not even the financial aspect but the time aspect...
Now using MacApp, i can background the sharewarin aspect of my work and focus on core concept of software. So , yes, test-drive. In fact for a test drive, I feel a video on youtube could be appropriate, showing the real capacity of Outguess.
So i don t expect "pinch" in software, i update my work.
Outguess do the job...
Rbcafe, the inability to try a demo is one of the driving motivations behind illegally downloading apps.
Also, according to some articles on piracy, I have been told that the appstore makes the pirate's job easier. Just sayin'.
Rbcafe: there's also the method of maintaining two codebases and providing a lite version with reduced capacity for free. Although I recognize this might depend on what the software does.
Agreed.
There have been a couple apps that I have purchased through the app store that did not work properly for my setup, but I wasn't able to find this out via a demo. Very time consuming getting your money back.
This has made me reluctant to make purchases through the App Store.
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While this looks to be a worthwhile app, as always, we'd love it if developers who use the App Store would take a cue from other programmers, like Russell over at SweetP Productions (Cookie), and provide a demo which can be downloaded at the developers site, for trial, prior to purchase.
Mac developers have been doing this with their wares for some fifteen plus years, with great success I might add.
I know you guys are feeling the pinch in sales, because I have many developers confide this to me.
Take the hint: provide a test drive, before asking us to buy the car.
It's not the $1 here or the $4.99 there:
It's all of them added up over time that keeps many of us from availing ourselves of your programs, especially when we can't try them out first.
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Now using MacApp, i can background the sharewarin aspect of my work and focus on core concept of software. So , yes, test-drive. In fact for a test drive, I feel a video on youtube could be appropriate, showing the real capacity of Outguess.
So i don t expect "pinch" in software, i update my work.
Outguess do the job...
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Also, according to some articles on piracy, I have been told that the appstore makes the pirate's job easier. Just sayin'.
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There have been a couple apps that I have purchased through the app store that did not work properly for my setup, but I wasn't able to find this out via a demo. Very time consuming getting your money back.
This has made me reluctant to make purchases through the App Store.
Serahug rated on 20 Apr 2011