[X4U] MacUpdate Special Offer

[Pete Zimowski]

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On Jul 20, 2007, at 5:29 PM, Neil Laubenthal <neil at laubenthal.net>  
wrote:

> Nothing against the MacHeist guys making a profit . . . but even if  
> you double or triple the advertising and bandwiidth costs the vast  
> majority of the profit still goes to them and not to the developers.  
> For a program that supposedly is being run (according to their press  
> release last time . . . I didn't look this go round) for the benefit  
> of shareware developers . . . keeping the majority of the profit is  
> disingenuous atl
>
>
>
> On Jul 20, 2007, at 18:35, Stroller wrote:
>
>>
>> I'll bet that many of the buyers of this bundle will use 3 or 4 of  
>> these apps and barely ever touch the other half-dozen or more - so  
>> in this case the 5 bucks net being received is money for nothing.  
>> There will be no support costs for those purchasers and they are  
>> sales that wouldn't otherwise have been made.
>>
>> I feel you may underestimate the cost of advertising and marketing  
>> in your analysis above, but whatever - it's the nature of business  
>> that profit makes ventures worthwhile. Clearly all the authors were  
>> willing participants and don't need defending (although, fair  
>> enough, buy directly from the authors if you prefer to support them  
>> that way).
>
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