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@Orytek: True, but is that fair? Why don't they actually sell their apps here also? As they used to. The only way to get things straight is to indirectly boycott Apple by boycotting such developers.

Apple Says "Apps that are "beta", "demo", "trial", or "test" versions will be rejected" and for some reasons i can't post a trial version outside the app store, all developers know that. source: http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/2010/09/app-store-guidelines.pdf line 2.9

This is something I did NOT know. Then Apple should be chewed out for this. It's a BAD policy, especially for you developers, then. What they must be trying to do is prevent people from advertising on the store, and then having clients NOT buy through them, thus circumventing their sale percentage (which MUST be high!). However, they could still provide TRIAL DOWNLOAD LINKS for their developers. That's just stupid. I suppose we loose Steve jobs (and his large corporate control) and we get MicroApple, or is it, AppleSoft? Sorry for not understanding their App Store Developer bylaws. I'll have to start a write in (bad propaganda) campaign. Q: ViewIt has a great thumbnail preview feature. It allows for the rapid (and smooth) playback—drag of all thumbs in a collection. This is — in effect — a movie preview in near real time. For Time-Lapse this has proven a VERY useful preview feature (no rendering required). Is this something you have included already (does your preview work this way), or can add? Thanks Dorian

Hi Iamdorian, There's a lot to say about App store anyway i tried ViewIt and i agree it has a great thumbnail preview and the answer of your question is no, but there is a difference in images quality, Viewer calculate the sharpness of images by it size.

Please add me to the list of people who will not be buying without trying. I do not blame you, the developer. Rather, please send yet another complaint to Apple for making business difficult for all of you. I see no sane reason why Apple should not allow a demo. One developer responded to me that "Apple will refund your money if you're not happy." But look at the procedure Apple puts you through for this: http://www.40tech.com/2011/01/31/how-to-get-a-refund-from-the-ios-or-mac-app-stores/ When you report a problem via the iTunes store, the options they give you are as follows: 1. I didn't receive this item 2. I inadvertently purchased this item 3. This item does not function as expected 4. I already own this item 5. This item was labeled incorrectly 6. My concern isn't listed here (with box to explain) Nowhere do I see the option of "I was not happy with the application," or "I just wanted to demo it and see if I liked it." As if that explanation is going to fly in the first place. So, I either lie or hope Apple will accept my rationale of unhappiness. And since all of the articles I found that describe this "simple" process caution us not to abuse this process - and I'm unclear as to how many refund requests constitute an "abuse" - it's conceivable that I cannot really "demo" very many of these pay-up-front products before Apple won't let me do so anymore and will stop issuing refunds. And then, if I do get lucky, I get to wait at least a week before Apple even decides, and then I get to wait even longer before a refund shows up in my bank account. In the meantime, as I await the coveted "unhappiness refund," I no longer have access to the money that I might have spent on a competing product that did allow a trial version and that might have satisfied what I was looking for. And this is Apple's new form of "demo" for an app? Again, developer, I am sorry for your troubles here, but I can't afford to do this. I might ask, though, if the Apple Store is genuinely your only or best option for doing business? I'm sure they offer incentives or simplicity, but perhaps those benefits don't outweigh the loss of sales.

A demo could be posted here and the developer could still have an appstore version. It's not a big deal. Lots of developers do this. Fantastical, Transmit.etc.

@Orytek: True, but is that fair? Why don't they actually sell their apps here also? As they used to. The only way to get things straight is to indirectly boycott Apple by boycotting such developers.