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Apple Launches 'Get Stuff Done' Promotion for Mac App Store

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Apple today began a new 'Get Stuff Done' promotional sale, offering discounts on several popular productivity apps.

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The sale, which will take place over three weeks, features three categories: Prioritize, Organize, and Utilize. This week's category is Prioritize, and features list making apps like Clear and Things at a deep discount. Here's a full list along with prices:

-Clear: $6.99 down from $9.99 [Direct Link]
-Things: $24.99 down from $49.99 [Direct Link]
-2Do: $14.99 down from $29.99 [Direct Link]
-Due: $4.99 down from $9.99 [Direct Link]
-Todo: $6.99 down from $14.99 [Direct Link]
-TaskPaper: $11.99 down from $24.99 [Direct Link]
-The Hit List: $24.99 down from $49.99 [Direct Link]
-BreakTime: $2.99 down from $4.99 [Direct Link]

The sale on these apps will last from January 24 to January 31. Next week, Apple will feature a new set of apps for sale.

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astrobill

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Ok, but....

....will the preceding weeks' sale prices stay up as the remaining weeks' deals are revealed? Also, what if some of the apps in each of the three categories go together? How does a user know in advance if there's a "suite" of apps they should get that work well in a three-app sequence better than other combos???
 
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Unggoy Murderer

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Chuck-Norris said:
so apples saying there own reminders, calender and notes app wont cut it? Lol
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Or, maybe they're saying "our default Apps are pretty good, but if you really want to take one of them to the next level, take a look at these".

Apple can't do everything, (I'm sure they would love to...) but if they did, iOS wouldn't ship every year.
 
jclo

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astrobill said:
....will the preceding weeks' sale prices stay up as the remaining weeks' deals are revealed? Also, what if some of the apps in each of the three categories go together? How does a user know in advance if there's a "suite" of apps they should get that work well in a three-app sequence better than other combos???
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It does not look like these sales will last longer than one week, so they won't stay on sale when next week's deals appear. Things' app description says the sale ends January 31, as do the app descriptions of some of the other apps on sale.
 
Jessica Lares

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I remember getting The Hit List with MacHeist a loooong time ago. Pretty good, but I've now replaced it with Firetask, which I got at last year's MacHeist. :D I find it to be a lot nicer, and it has an iPad app, unlike THL.

Looking forward to next week's Organize sale. :D
 
Pakaku

Pakaku

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Chuck-Norris said:
so apples saying there own reminders, calender and notes app wont cut it? Lol
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You already gave Apple your money when you bought their product. Now you should buy theses apps so Apple can take their 30% profit.
 
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sazivad

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Chuck-Norris said:
so apples saying there own reminders, calender and notes app wont cut it? Lol
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Well, not explicitly.

I think it is good, though, that apps like these exist at all, and the old thing about "no duplicating existing functionality" has been dropped.

Especially from Apple, historically keen on intentionally limiting features for the sake of simplicity.

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KernelG said:
I'm about to buy a copy of FCPX to Get Stuff Done. Can I get a 50% discount on that? :D
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Well, FCP 7 was sold at $1000. FCP X is sold for $300.

That's a pretty big discount right there, especially considering all of the new features added.
 
NMF

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A "GTD" promotion without OmniFocus? Maybe Apple really is slipping...
 
ArtOfWarfare

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Don't you just love selling your stuff in a store where the owner periodically shoves your product out of the way? Sure is tons of fun when Apple picks the winners.
 
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el-John-o

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ArtOfWarfare said:
Don't you just love selling your stuff in a store where the owner periodically shoves your product out of the way? Sure is tons of fun when Apple picks the winners.
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How is that different than ANY OTHER retail environment?

If you sell a product in a brick and mortar store, there will still be sales, displays, items marked 'best seller' and probably even displays setup with certain products, while other products remain on the shelves, perhaps even covered in dust and behind a pallet jack!

I can't think of any online software store that doesn't do these same sorts of things. What good is it to a customer if the software store just throws all the apps in there willy nilly. Customers want ratings, they want to know what sells well, and they want occasional promotions like this where certain apps are highlighted.

Apple is no different here than any other retail environment.
 
ikir

ikir

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dweezle3 said:
Nah, they're just saying, "buy some apps so that you can do more stuff! Doesn't matter if they're our apps or not, we make money either way!" :p
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Users here are never happy. Apple always promoted third party app, you have choice.
 
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rdvg

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Apple Broke GTD

Apple broke GTD apps by removing the reminders from Calendar. I used to love Things and used the quick entry into iCal from iStat Menus. This is now broken with 10.8.

An usual Apple trick introduce new "features" and deprecating and removing useful ones.
 
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