I really don’t understand why everyone seems to be stressing so much about whether this app, that only cost a few dollars, is free for existing users. I know that money doesn’t grow on trees, but that’s the exact reason why any Mac user who cares about good software should feel great about paying a few bucks to an earnest developer who invests their employees’ time and effort into a major and much needed upgrade. Too many people these days think that everything should be “free”. Of course incremental updates should be free. But at a certain point, when developers no longer have any profit motivation, they’re just going to abandon apps. This happens all the time. And it sucks for everyone. So when there’s an app that’s not very expensive to begin with, and they then make a major upgrade, pay them for God’s sake. There is no free lunch. You get what you pay for. Pay for what is important to you.
From my perspective, this Mac app update is long overdue. It’s not just that there hasn’t been feature parity between platforms on Notability, but the Mac app has been considerably less reliable than the iOS version. There have been all sorts of syncing problems, resulting in loss of notes and data for a lot of users. I basically stopped using the Mac app a few months ago, so I’m excited to bring it back into my workflow.
