Just to add another "me too" to the list. I actually never used growl without an app that asked me if I wanted to which installed it for me, and even then I pretty much ignored it. I created an automator service a few weeks ago and saw the growl option and figured "what the heck". Then I saw an "update" and removed my existing copy and went to install the new one and imagine my surprise when I was asked to pay in the app store. I agree it is understandable that you all want to get paid for your work, however suddenly being forced to pay for the same feature set has never sat well with me. Give me the exact same functionality for free and add an in app purchase for advanced features. Or at least give me a clear warning that the "update" is actually a paid upgrade. As it is it is too much trouble to try and downgrade and worry about bugs and support etc so I'll just remove growl and eventually forget about it. Quite sad now that I had just really noticed it might have worth and handled more openly I might be a paying customer if I ever needed a truly advanced feature.
On Nov 8, 1:25 pm, Muffin <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree. I'm not opposed to the developers making some profit for > their hard work but the Growl crew is handling this poorly. Including > but not limited to the misleading information on the Growl landing > page. > > On Nov 6, 10:22 pm, Zac Bowling <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > There is a growing thread on hackernews. I suggest doing damage control > > before the Growl brand is tarnished. Fix up the source page on the > > growl.info and make it known it's also still open source. > > > I suggest looking at how Textual does it on their > > page.http://www.codeux.com/textual/ > > > The most interesting comment over there is that developers are backing out > > because as they see it, now growl is a dependency that costs money for them > > to ask their users to use and are putting their own notification systems in > > and are backing out from everything Growl. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en.
