#Coversutra for mac
#Coversutra serial number
#Coversutra update
#Coversutra upgrade

They are creating a store for certain kinds of apps sold in the way in which Apple sells its own apps.

#Coversutra for mac

I disagree with this also as the Mac App Store is not trying to be the all encompassing place for mac software as is highlighted by their terms of what is and isn't allowed in the store.

#Coversutra upgrade

After all, if Apple allowed upgrade pricing then this wouldn't be happening. It's very easy at this point to blame the Mac App Store for this issue. That would have solved all the problems and taken considerably less effort than it's now going to take to 'restore sanity' to her users.

#Coversutra update

This does not mean she would need to sell version 2.5 on her website, just push an update through her existing system for the old users. However, if you have an update system in place, there is not much effort involved to publish an update through it (as that is the essence of the system). I agree wholeheartedly that maintaining two distribution channels is difficult and, if I were to launch a mac application tomorrow, I would only choose the Mac App Store. Precious time better spend on the actual update and my other apps.

#Coversutra serial number

But maintaining two builds, one for the App Store and one with the serial number checks, was too time consuming for me. It‘s true that I could have made version 2.5 available through the legacy Sparkle updater. Upon it's revelation, the 2.5 version should have been recompiled to be distributed through the Sparkle system she was using. In essence, the initial promise should never have been made. Instead, she told an already riled crowd to 'calm down' and made the situation far worse. Upon being reminded about the promise, she should have instantly made a simple apology and outlined what had happened. I'll come to the Mac App Store shortly but the issue of a promise could have been dealt with in a far more dignified way. This was excaberated by her fanning the flames in the comments by telling everyone to 'chill down' and so on.Īs the comments got worse (and needlessly aggressive in tone), it became apparent that a lot of the problem was people not understanding why they couldn't get updates through the Mac App Store and that the developer had forgotten the previous promise that was made. however I lowered the price to $4.99 so there's no reason not to pick up a copy for new features'. She promised a free update until version 3.0 and didn't deliver it so in a way people are allowed to be pissed especially when she remarks that 'a migration from the previous standalone version is sadly not possible. A lot of people have backed the developer purely because of the horrendous abuse that she has suffered on her blog (which I'll come to shortly) but that is to forgive something because of abuse after the fact which, in this case, is actually immaterial. At first glance, the fault would appear to lie with the developer and, to be fair, that is still my general opinion. The basic details are that version 2.5 was a new update that was to be exclusive on the App Store yet this reneged on a previous promise (made several years ago apparently) that all updates would be free until version 3.0 - users that bought a version recently would now not be able to upgrade to 2.5 without paying $5 on the App Store.

Looking at the issue at hand first of all, it is essential that you go to the Sophiestication Blog and read the article that sparked this all off.

I have mixed opinions about this but it gives me some scope to talk not only about the Mac App Store, but also about selling on the internet in general and the lack of understanding by a large amount of the commenting world. A few people have started asking me for my opinion on the fast-growing story about CoverSutra, a mac application for which the developer promised free updates until version 3.0 several years ago but then switched to be exclusive on the Mac App Store with a new 2.x version which old customers would have to rebuy.