MacHeist 2

JonB

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Tuaw Said said:
If you've got $50 burning a hole in your Paypal account, maybe some software purchasing is just the thing to quench that flame. As of midnight Tuesday, the Macheist 2 bundle is available for purchase. Although there may be some additional announcements along the way (as there were with the MacUpdate bundle), the apps bundled at the start of sales include:

* ChaChing
* 1Password
* Awaken 4.5
* iStopMotion
* CoverSutra
* TaskPaper
* AppZapper
* CSSedit, if target sales are reached
* Snapz Pro, if targets reached
* Pixelmator, as we noted earlier, if targets reached

The Awaken and CoverSutra packages are exclusive versions for Macheist, so we're told. Whatever the relative merits and drawbacks of the app-bundle approach for the ISVs involved, the value of this bundle to the consumer (even if you already own one or two of the apps) is not really debatable. Note that at least a couple of the apps are 10.5 only, and the list on Macheist is definitive (so if you saw something here or in the comments that's not on the Macheist site -- go with what they're listing).
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Well this is certainly just as much value as MacHeist 1 and i've already bought my bundle! :D
 
Ah well, its still worth its money. You get a sneak peak at coversutra 2, by the way!

EDIT: You can also gift licenses if you already own one.
 
It certainly does look nice, compared to all the other finance apps i've ever used. Just need to wait for my license to come through now so I can have a proper play with it! :D
 
Well the combination of Coversutra (2, which is what you get with MacHeist) and spotlight have left me to ditch quicksilver.

Pixelmator for me, is much quicker and easier than using photoshop for small jobs.

I listen to a lot of streaming radio, and often use it to fall asleep too. I didn't know about awaken before MacHeist. It's certainly helped me out as I had a problem with how to turn radio off after an hour. (And turn it on to wake me up, for that matter)

Appzapper is pretty useful, although there are better types of un-installation software (CleanUp2.0)

CSSEdit is brilliant. End of. (If you like making websites :-))
 
Sucks that Coversutra 2 isn't available via their site.. I want to upgrade seeing as I recently bought it :mad::(

That cha-cing looks good, but I can't say I've used it
 
I find that Quicksilver + iTunes plugin + Growl notifier plugin does everything I need in an itunes notifier. Cover sutra looks nice but i doubt Id look at the cd case much on the desktop.

I just have the apple remote to hand when I want to control itunes.

Cha-Ching does look good tho, but apart from that I think i might give macheist a miss.
Its definietly a good deal tho there , even if you only use 2 or 3 of the apps.
 
hey, looking at getting this, but does it include CSSEdit? says there are 400ish left, does that mean they have to sell 400 more bundle both you get it? or that only the next 400 bundles will get it? confused because it says "if target sales are reached"

cheers
 
They have to sell another 400 to unlock it, but everyone will get it. Whether you bought before or after it is unlocked.

They have now added an 11th piece of software..."Speed Download"
 
Space Cowboy said:
This is old, but quite relevant:

http://daringfireball.net/2006/12/iniquities_of_the_selfish

"My problem with MacHeist is that they’re couching this bundle as a service to the indie developer community, when the truth is that they stand to make a significant amount of money while paying comparatively little to the very developers whose interests they claim to be serving."
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To add to that link, a quick excerpt.

Update, Sunday 17 December 2006: With a few hours left in the promotion, MacHeist is reporting over 14,000 units sold and total revenue of about $640,000. I currently estimate they’re paying a grand total of $70,000 or less to the participating developers. Again, with an estimated $30,000 in additional costs, that leaves the MacHeist team with about $385,000 in profit, which is 85 percent of the total profits from the promotion. The average developer received about 1.5 percent of the profit.
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In other words, they pay $70,000 out of their profits to the developers, and keep the other $385,000 for themselves :mad::(
 
I didnt fancy the previous MacHeist promo, but this one looks good.

I bought one when they & macupdate??? joined together, great apps with GarageSale (that is amazing).

I might be buying this one!
 
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