I just got a new MBP 15." I went to the app store to my purchased section, and it was asking me if I wanted to link my iLife 11 to my App Store account. I did it, and now it shows up, and I can only assume updates will come down through the app store.
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Mac App Store Now Offering Re-Buy Warnings for Apps Purchased Elsewhere
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I just got a new MBP 15." I went to the app store to my purchased section, and it was asking me if I wanted to link my iLife 11 to my App Store account. I did it, and now it shows up, and I can only assume updates will come down through the app store.
Just put the burden on the developer/original seller. Give them the option to provide Apple with a one-time list of licenses to import. They probably would have to provide some compensation for Apple's cut for those licenses, sure, but at least having the option would've been nice.
My Mac App Store wish list:
- Transfer license of apps purchased outside the App Store
- Version upgrade pricing, with grace period for apps purchased recently
- Educational pricing
- iOS universal license
- In-app purchase
- 24-hour refund period
- Ability to remove an app from purchased list
Already got this warning the day after I bought compressor (the day it was released with FCPX) next morning the App store already told me the app was installed from another source and I had to pay for it again. So not sure how this is a new feature? Perhaps it is now a properly working feature and I ran into a bug? It is still telling me I did not buy compressor in the App store.
the actual notice says:
Compressor 4.0 is al geïnstalleerd en was niet in de Mac App Store gekocht
Wilt u Compressor 4.0 opnieuw kopen?
translation:
Compressor 4.0 is already installed but was not bought in the Mac App Store
Do you want to buy Compressor 4.0 again?
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Yes transfer license sounds good and 24 hours refund, I think a week trial / refund option should be available. For 99c I think we can take a gamble, but anything above $50 should have a trial option.
the actual notice says:
Compressor 4.0 is al geïnstalleerd en was niet in de Mac App Store gekocht
Wilt u Compressor 4.0 opnieuw kopen?
translation:
Compressor 4.0 is already installed but was not bought in the Mac App Store
Do you want to buy Compressor 4.0 again?
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Yes transfer license sounds good and 24 hours refund, I think a week trial / refund option should be available. For 99c I think we can take a gamble, but anything above $50 should have a trial option.
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I agree but then again you do have to click on the "Buy" link in the first place before you get this dialog box.
Totally spot on
Can't think of anything else I would add to that
As with anything Apple though, what are the chances of getting everything we want?!
Update please, this is not new. I got this same message several months ago after I manually moved a copy of the Compressor v4 app from where I originally purchased it to a Mac Pro (where the App Store's installer wouldn't work because it checked for supported video cards).
In any case, my manual install worked just fine but then after I upgraded my video card and tried to install Compressor the "normal way" it gave me a message about Compressor being already installed but not purchased from the App Store and would I like to purchase it again.
So, this is NOT something new to the App Store (it's always been there, it just needed a situation where the check would be triggered).
By the way, the upgraded video card seemed to make no difference in the performance of Compressor v4, so at least for this component of the Final Cut X package the video card requirement enforced by the installer appears to be completely bogus.
In any case, my manual install worked just fine but then after I upgraded my video card and tried to install Compressor the "normal way" it gave me a message about Compressor being already installed but not purchased from the App Store and would I like to purchase it again.
So, this is NOT something new to the App Store (it's always been there, it just needed a situation where the check would be triggered).
By the way, the upgraded video card seemed to make no difference in the performance of Compressor v4, so at least for this component of the Final Cut X package the video card requirement enforced by the installer appears to be completely bogus.
I had a similar problem (see my previous post). However, I think you can eliminate that message by making certain that you don't have Compressor installed ANYWHERE else on your system (even on a different startup disk and even if it is an earlier version of Compressor). Then, try to download/install the app again from the App Store. I was eventually able to get a clean install directly from the App Store after I unmounted a second disk that had an earlier version of Compressor installed on it.
During my attempts to re-install Compressor I also ended up deleting some of the App Store preference files (plists) but that didn't seem to help (as far as I could tell, maybe it did something that helped to fix the problem, it took me a few days of "head scratching" to finally get the Compressor app to install from the App Store).
I remember when the Mac App Store launched, and people complained that their iLife apps weren't being recognized by the Store as "Installed". Then Apple changed it, and all iLife apps showed on the Store in this way.
Now, they don't show as "Installed" anymore. Even further, as opposed to showing us we own them already, the Store asks if we want to buy them again? I have to say, this is one step backwards that I think is absurd.
Now, they don't show as "Installed" anymore. Even further, as opposed to showing us we own them already, the Store asks if we want to buy them again? I have to say, this is one step backwards that I think is absurd.
Now that Apple have added internet recovery to older MBP's, it would only make sense to allow us to add our iLife apps to our account. I don't see why they can't do this, it comes FREE with the system.
If they did do this it would mean you could completely reinstall Lion and your iLife apps without needing any kind of physical media, which is the way Apple is going now.
If they did do this it would mean you could completely reinstall Lion and your iLife apps without needing any kind of physical media, which is the way Apple is going now.
Ideally all non-App Store apps recognised by the App Store would be offered as free downloads. Maybe licencing issues prevent this from being the case more than piracy but if Apple can negotiate with the music industry to have iTunes mirroring of non-iTunes Store tracks then something similar could be worked out with software publishers.
agreed especially the last one, except i wold like 3 day refund period also with ios games.
I think apple aren't doing this because it is possible to illegally acquire software either from a borrowed CD or downloading an image from *somewhere*. Apple would then be authorising an illegally acquired version.
Well iTunes in iCloud does the same thing but for music and that's rolling out for $24 a year. Should be able to do it for software too.
Sounds like the Mac App Store could take a lesson from Steam, where you simply type in your serial from the box version you bought on clearance at Walmart 
Works just like normal software registration...seems obvious.
Works just like normal software registration...seems obvious.