The new edition of MacHeist isn’t called MacHeist IV but “nanoBundle”. It features 6 Mac apps worth $154 available as a free download. The apps are:
- Shovebox
- Twitterrific
- Writeroom
- TinyGrab
- Hordes of Orcs
- Mariner Write (unlocked when the nanoBundle will reach 500,000 participants!)
Now, I don’t think anyone can really criticize this year’s MacHeist. When people is able to get paid stuff for free, nobody can criticize the apps (which for instance are very good in my opinion).
Years ago Gruber wrote a very interesting article which questioned the real value of MacHeist to software developers. Now, I believe that if a developer agrees to partecipate to MacHeist with an application, he actually knows the pro and cons of it.
Who are we to criticize their choices? Do the user really care about this? No.
Do we care about it just because we are bloggers? Yes.
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That's what EricaS said 3 months ago:
I’ve been participating in MacHeist so far and all the free apps are great. Can’t complain about any of them even though I already had apps similar to each of them. It’s nice of the developers to give the away for free.
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