You aren't paying for the same feature set. What needs to change to address the rest of your concerns here?
-- Chris Forsythe On Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 3:45 PM, comccoy wrote: > 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] (http://gmail.com)> 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] (http://gmail.com)> > > 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 (http://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] > (mailto:[email protected]). > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en. > > -- 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.
