XPLICIT  Wait until The Hit List is released. That app will be about 70 bucks. Some developers should really consider what their app is worth to customers, not to themselves.  
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KAIDOH  This is a little lame:

- taxes apply on other apps too (just for the record: taxes go to the state not to the software vendor)

- Omnifocus is even more expensive

- iGTD wasn't updated for over a year

- Evernote and Mori are other-purpuse-ware (collecting stuff vs. managing tasks)

- That Snowleopard argument is nonsense. Comparing an OS with an application leads nowhere. Again with this argument every other software could be blamed too expensive (also Apple sells millions of copies of an OS, third party developers count in thousands. You need a different calculation based on such premises)

It's perfectly all right if Things is not right for your purposes or just too expensive. But it is not helpful to other people if you just blame an app for its price (or for paying taxes on it), neither is name dropping some better apps (that apparently do "something" better) and not talking about which feature you actually miss.

For its money Things delivers a robust and flexible feature set. One can see that much effort has been put into making it actually easy and fun to use. Regular updates give me the calm feeling that this app is maintained and offers continuous support. For me it is absolutely worth its price (even without it's introducing 20% discount)  
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XPLICIT  Your absolutely right, most apps can be blamed too expensive. I think too 58 bucks is too much.  
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BLLOYD  Of course, right now the app is $40 and not $50 (taxes excluded). Why grouse about the full price when there's a 20% discount for early adopters?  
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MACD  I agree the current price tag is like.. hm.. twice as much as I expected developers to ask for the software in its current state. I'll explain why:

- first of all, there's no support for sub-projects. Yes, I know this feature will be added and on top of their feature list. However, it's been like that like.. forever already

- this brings the second gripe: the speed at which the software evolves is slow as hell if you ask me. I have tried Things half a year ago (or even more than that?) and the current version didn't bring much to the table in comparison

- now, how about MobileMe/WebDAV/anything to sync data between 2 or more computers? or to sync data between iPhone app (which I own but don't use) and desktop data on the go (in case I forgot to sync before leaving for home, or for work, or for vacation, or for whatever)

- did I mention sub-projects?

- ah did I mention they told us forever that sub-projects will be supported, but without ANY timeline AT ALL?

Now, the software is looking good, and parially usable, but in its current state its NOWHERE LIKE in the range of prices they are asking for, EVEN with currently available "early adopters". OmniFocus definitely has its quirks and a good amount of stuff I don't like about it, but at least after (supposedly ungodly amount of time, for some users) customizations, it because actually usable.

Things, on the other hand, does not, because it just lacks the ability to spend that ungodly amount of time on customizations, because there are not that much features inside this software - not even some extremely basic stuff for power/average-users included (see above)

So yeah, speed of development is extremely slow, no sub-projects (they are coming for ages now), no mac to mac sync. Paying (any price) just for eye candy is for folks who just like new toys. Staying with OmniFocus. Don't like it too much, but it's way better now.  
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