Day One 2 available on Thursday

Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 3, 2016 at 03:56 PM

I have to agree with Franz. Mac and iOS developers have an increasingly hard time making money out of the Apple Store (especially for Mac), with no support for upgrades and irritating foibles like “family licensing” (meaning you more or less have to agree to license your software to multiple members of the same “family”; when prices are low in the first place, this must really grate!).

Day One is an extremely competent app I’ve been using for journaling for many years. I’m delighted by the new feature of multiple journals, because it means Day One can now function as e.g. a trip recorder, meetings recorder and various other things, as well as being a capable journal. And I don’t mind trying out the developer’s syncing service - I shall of course make a bit of a fuss if it doesn’t work well!

Finally, USD 25 seems like a very reasonable price to me. Franz mentions Keith at Literature&Latte; I also think of OmniGroup and their various relatively high-priced products: also enormously popular, no matter what you may think of the individual apps. User efforts to beat prices lower and lower simply mean that developers start to restrict their efforts, which is why there are so few Windows touch apps, and why many of the best iOS apps have died a death. Also, why many of the top Mac apps have stopped using the Apple Store and are now distributed directly to users (thereby enabling upgrade prices and avoiding the sandboxing that can - in certain cases - be so irritating). Cunning developers offer apps on both Apple Store AND direct via the web, enticing users to the latter by offering upgrade pricing and extra features (e.g. PDF Expert for Mac by Readdle, one of the best iOS developers around).

Cheers,
Bill