Lessons learned
I'm glad I bought this bundle, but here a few lessons learned by watching how this promo unfolded:
1. Jumping in early was rewarded by, initially, NOT receiving a free $20 MacUpdate membership and then, later, this was modified to being given a free membership only if you gave them 4 of your friends' email addresses. People who waited until later and used the resulting invitations received a free membership automatically.
2. Jumping in early before it became clear that were better off ordering via MacHeist meant you missed out on some really great apps such as BrowseBack and WriteRoom.
3. Following the sales figures was enjoyable but frustrating at the same time because, of course, they are now hiding whatever they sell above 5,999 (and, of course, you can bet it will be quite a few).
4. The whole count-down was nonsense anyway, because they immediately tacked another 3 days onto it so that they could cash in properly. I've got nothing against them making a profit, they deserve it, but it does rather defeat the purpose of having a countdown.
5. The organizers behind respected websites can sometimes be surprisingly inexperienced and immature, wasting valuable momentum in the vital middle stages of a promo by retreating into a comforting blanket of paranoia and self-delusion, when they should, instead, be on the phone to the developers, re-negotiating a much earlier lowering of unworkable unlock targets.
5. ULTIMATE LESSON WE'VE BEEN TAUGHT BY MACUPDATE: Jump in as late as possible and let others take the risks and suffer the managerial cock-ups.
But, yeah, it's been fun and the bundle is great, especially with the extras you get for ordering through MacHeist, I heartily recommend that you all get yourselves over there sometime during the next 3 days.
PS - Tech Tools Pro is NOT, as someone stated above, the same as Tech Tools Deluxe which comes with AppleCare, it is, apparently, quite a bit better.
Bye bye everyone, I'm off to Ireland for a vacation
I'm glad I bought this bundle, but here a few lessons learned by watching how this promo unfolded:
1. Jumping in early was rewarded by, initially, NOT receiving a free $20 MacUpdate membership and then, later, this was modified to being given a free membership only if you gave them 4 of your friends' email addresses. People who waited until later and used the resulting invitations received a free membership automatically.
2. Jumping in early before it became clear that were better off ordering via MacHeist meant you missed out on some really great apps such as BrowseBack and WriteRoom.
3. Following the sales figures was enjoyable but frustrating at the same time because, of course, they are now hiding whatever they sell above 5,999 (and, of course, you can bet it will be quite a few).
4. The whole count-down was nonsense anyway, because they immediately tacked another 3 days onto it so that they could cash in properly. I've got nothing against them making a profit, they deserve it, but it does rather defeat the purpose of having a countdown.
5. The organizers behind respected websites can sometimes be surprisingly inexperienced and immature, wasting valuable momentum in the vital middle stages of a promo by retreating into a comforting blanket of paranoia and self-delusion, when they should, instead, be on the phone to the developers, re-negotiating a much earlier lowering of unworkable unlock targets.
5. ULTIMATE LESSON WE'VE BEEN TAUGHT BY MACUPDATE: Jump in as late as possible and let others take the risks and suffer the managerial cock-ups.
But, yeah, it's been fun and the bundle is great, especially with the extras you get for ordering through MacHeist, I heartily recommend that you all get yourselves over there sometime during the next 3 days.
PS - Tech Tools Pro is NOT, as someone stated above, the same as Tech Tools Deluxe which comes with AppleCare, it is, apparently, quite a bit better.
Bye bye everyone, I'm off to Ireland for a vacation
