Apple didn't like the way we implemented the HUD look using BWToolKit, so we took the files, and then took them out of the .framework bunds, and put them as loose files in Resources (within the app). Then it was approved.

This version number is wrong. It should be 1.1.1, btw.

An understandable position. This app was updated well around the time screen left his alliterative comment, and the App Store has yet to release the update. If Apple means to monopolize developers, the least its "geniuses" can do is move their rear ends and stop sitting on updates. This becomes one more reason to encourage developers to make their apps available outside the App Store.

@ accountclosed

Yes. Along with your comment there is a question for both developers and customers : will there be an Apple life outside the Stores (App & iTunes) in a near future ? How long the Mac (and its OS) will remain different from a big iPad ?

Why Scrawl isn't Available outside the Mac App Store:
Scrawl has been designed to use Apple's iCloud service to sync notes across all devices with the same iCloudID and Scrawl. Apple has created code in the Mac OS X Lion operating system that makes apps with iCloud, not sold via the Mac App Store, not function.

@ Allen Dunahoo

"not sold via the Mac App Store, not function"

So, you know the way Tim cooks you. OK.
Then, for users, as SJ had the habit to hammer during the keynotes : "Amazing, you can buy!". Great.

One more thing, there are other voices, don't know if they'll be able to sing freely for a long time, but they try :
e.g. "Full software, not an App!"
h**p://www.bresink.com/osx/FullSoftware.html

@Iscreen
Well good for him. I believe that iCloud is a very nice feature to have, and I do not plan to get rid of it.

I may do a lite version in the future, and treat it as a limited trial. That could be listed outside of the Mac App Store for free. However, I do not plan to do that at this point.

With all due respect for the developer's explanation here of why his app is available only through the App Store (and those of us who purchased it are STILL waiting for Apple to approve the latest update, two weeks after the fact of its release), the explanation begs the question. Apple may tie a developer's hands with proprietary technology, e.g., iCloud, but this strategy can work only if developers are willing to be taken hostage. Why couldn't Scrawl offer iCloud functionality as an OPTION? Many developers make their apps available in the App Store AND through their web site. When Apple begins to try to control how developers code their apps to strong-arm them into compliance with Apple's marketing aims, at the same time that they sit on updates for weeks, there's an implicit message that any savvy developer will recognize to get creative in making end-runs around Apple's attempts to control how users purchase and use apps. Invoking Apple standards (e.g., iCloud) as the reason for making apps available exclusively through the App Store does not answer the question; it evades it.

@accountclosed
I'm working on adding it to Scrawl :)