On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:53 PM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote:
> Beside Cyberduck this is the 2nd de facto standard application for Mac > OS X, I am aware of, that has been mangled through App Store in a > rush. If the developers need more money to maintain the product, I > suggest an appeal for donation. I gave money for the great projects > CCC and GPGTools and surely would for Growl. > We accepted donations for a very long time. They never covered what we want to do. > > In my opinion App Store is a good addition to web sites holding a > collection of free and commercial software for the Mac. As a part of > Mac OS X one has it alway at hand. It could be a central place for > user to quickly look for useful application. But pushing all and > everything by force will discredit App Store. > > Let me put it this way. The first time we put Growl as a binary download on google code hosting, we ate through ALL of google code hosting allocated bandwidth. They have since addressed the issue, but to be quite honest the app store is a better set up, just for that alone. We're not switching off of the app store. It is our binary distribution method going forward. We're pretty happy with what Apple is offering with regards to a whole lot on the app store. Chris > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
