The main beef I have with this site is the way they exploit absolutely everyone in order to sell the "bundle". They exploit the developers by not paying them enough for their software (although of course, it is their choice to opt in), they exploit the readers of sites and the editors of other sites with their Malcor rubbish and they exploit Digg.com, a site I'm very fond of by relentlessly spamming it. I thought it was especially disgusting when they "hacked" AppleMatters.com and it ended up throwing dirt on their innocent web host when people believed that their software was to blame.
I don't really see that any of these applications is worth the money. I think that on their own they're clearly not selling at all because many of them are completely pointless. Most of it is just gloss - look at Cha Ching or Coversutra - they're just a pretty interface for something which you could do on your computer already.
The reason most of these developers have signed up seems to be that they are incapable of selling their software based on its merits as an application. If these applications were for Windows then they would be freeware (or at the very most, cheap, cheap shareware) but because it's Mac then the developers think they've got a right to charge extortionate rates for it. What a joke.
I find it hard to believe there are 6,821 people who actually want to write CSS or record stop motion movies. People are buying into the hype and not the applications. They are using every single marketing gimmick in the book to get people to buy this and I'm just disappointed that people are stupid enough to fall for it.
You're not making hundreds of dollars of a saving - you never, ever would have bought all of these applications separately and they're such a diverse mix that I don't think anyone can possibly have a legitimate use for all of them.
The charity thing disgusts me too, the fact that people are willing to buy this bundle just because some money goes to charity is stupid. If you want to give money to charity, why not give money to charity directly? Fair enough if the bundle was sold 100% for charity, but for every dollar that goes to needy causes, some more dollars are lining the pockets of the owners of this site.
By the look of things too, sales aren't as strong as MacHeist had hoped - they've unlocked this Snapz Pro application at far less than the $100,000 charity donation they first set. Now all of the apps are going to be available when $100,000 is hit, because they know that Pixelmator is the only really legitimate one in there. All the rest are just gimmicks.
