MacHeist retail bundle now available

@ James that's the best way I agree wholeheartedly! MUP is a better deal for most this time around but the MH is meh. :( I still wonder "IF" you'll even get Parallels before the sales ends. MH should've sold there's at a different time than going head-to-head w/MUP unless it was a coincidence. I'd say they should let you pick your own bundle and group them so it's fair to the developers. Such as you can have one of these 3 valued at $79.99, one or 2 perhaps valued at $49-39.99, 3 or 4 @ $29-19.99 or whatever. But you'd have to pick a total of 8-12 and when you make a choice the others are grayed out.

Never mind, I found it:

http://skitch.com/spyker3292/e72e/muad

Where are people getting details about the MU bundle from?

This is a bundle aimed at the people who missed out on the previous three bundles. If you read the Macheist message boards, there are lots of folks inquiring there about how to buy past deals.

What's up with the snark about charities? These guys are businessmen; they don't have to give anything, but they've raised hundreds of thousands for various groups. What's the problem with that?

dear paul,

thanks for linking and of course I love links - but your're writing this again and again and again on different sites

:-0

please stop it!

I wish everyone who sells software would thinks like me - but so it could look like that I am Paul or that I have paid you for generating traffic (or spamming sites) - so it could cause the exact opposite…

thanks!

michael

Macheist has been busy spamming mac-forums.com with spam posts promoting this bundle all day.

They have enough cash to buy a heap of ads on the forums, but they're either too cheap or too greedy to, so they're spamming instead.

Classy Phil!

Weren't Awaken, Cha-Ching ,CoverSutra in the last bundle? Enigmo
, Bugdom 2, Nanosaur 2 are very old games aren't they? I designed 60 levels for Enigmo, which they included with the game on a MacWorld CD. I'm still waiting for my commission check ...not that I'm bitter or anything ;-)

Did they change the apps? Last time I checked, this MacHeist bundle included CSSEdit. Guess they changed what apps were included.

Add CSSEdit and replace Wallet with SplashID, and this would something I would look at.

The best two apps are on the box and not the bundle - 1Password and EarthDesk. Otherwise it's pretty lame. I'm going with MacUpdate's promo for the inclusion of Parallels alone.

Hello,

I've read a lot of comments in several weblogs and they are pretty evenly split between rejection and consent of thie idea behind the new MacHeist-Bundle.

That's my i searched the web for more and I found a German application developer with a very fair approach and perhaps this adds some new ideas to the heatedly discussion in the commentary sections?

Michael writes at http://myownapp.com/ this statement:

"Every MOApp Application works without licenses, serial number and activations. That sort of nonsense only punishes the honest among us.
For that reason, there are no 10/20/30 days demos of my small apps. But they will only store the data as long as the application is running.
After you've purchased the applications you fully own them, without limitation.
I know that this is a compromise - but I think it is a good one, much like DRM-free music. "

And I find his licensing and prices very fair:

"You purchase once and will get free updates as long as MOApp ist not dead. You can use MOApp Applications on any Mac you own. [...]
It is explicitly allowed:
· to translate and customize all MOApp Applications.
· to use MOApp Applications on any Mac you own.
· to transfer MOApp Applications if you do not use them any more.
It is explicitly not allowed:
· to share MOApp Applications you have paid for with others."

I would like to know, what do you think about this approach regarding the intense discussion about free- and shareware, independent developers and MacHeist, etc.?

I'm curious to hear from you :-)