In essence, the initial promise should never have been made. Instead, she told an already riled crowd to "calm down" and made the situation far worse. Upon being reminded about the promise, she should have instantly made a simple apology and outlined what had happened. I'll come to the Mac App Store shortly but the issue of a promise could have been dealt with in a far more dignified way. This was excaberated by her fanning the flames in the comments by telling everyone to "chill down" and so on.Īs the comments got worse (and needlessly aggressive in tone), it became apparent that a lot of the problem was people not understanding why they couldn't get updates through the Mac App Store and that the developer had forgotten the previous promise that was made. however I lowered the price to $4.99 so there's no reason not to pick up a copy for new features".
#Coversutra update#
She promised a free update until version 3.0 and didn't deliver it so in a way people are allowed to be pissed especially when she remarks that "a migration from the previous standalone version is sadly not possible.
A lot of people have backed the developer purely because of the horrendous abuse that she has suffered on her blog (which I'll come to shortly) but that is to forgive something because of abuse after the fact which, in this case, is actually immaterial. At first glance, the fault would appear to lie with the developer and, to be fair, that is still my general opinion.
#Coversutra upgrade#
The basic details are that version 2.5 was a new update that was to be exclusive on the App Store yet this reneged on a previous promise (made several years ago apparently) that all updates would be free until version 3.0 - users that bought a version recently would now not be able to upgrade to 2.5 without paying $5 on the App Store.
Looking at the issue at hand first of all, it is essential that you go to the Sophiestication Blog and read the article that sparked this all off. I have mixed opinions about this but it gives me some scope to talk not only about the Mac App Store, but also about selling on the internet in general and the lack of understanding by a large amount of the commenting world.
#Coversutra license#
Consider me sold.Ī demo of CoverSutra is available from, while a license sells for €9.95 or roughly $13 USD.A few people have started asking me for my opinion on the fast-growing story about CoverSutra, a mac application for which the developer promised free updates until version 3.0 several years ago but then switched to be exclusive on the Mac App Store with a new 2.x version which old customers would have to rebuy. It's a great service for any music enthusiast, and now it's built right into Sophia's excellent iTunes controller app. From there you can share your playlists and discover new music through both friends and strangers who also use the site, and even embed your Last.fm playlist in a website or blog.
#Coversutra mac os x#
For those who haven't seen it, Last.fm can watch what music you're playing (on both Mac OS X and Windows) and upload what is more or less a history of all the songs you listen to (it doesn't upload the songs themselves it isn't the next Kazaa/LimeWire). The first is integration with the increasingly ubiquitous Growl notification system of which we're big fans, but the second big new feature finally made me decide to buy a license: integration with the Last.fm music community. From the start it's offered things like global keyboard shortcuts for controlling iTunes (including one for toggling Shuffle), Apple Remote integration and album artwork that can live on your desktop underneath all your other windows (for that nice Exposé peek-a-boo effect), but recent developments have brought two major new features. It's been a while since we first mentioned Sophia Teutschler's CoverSutra, a new iTunes interaction and manipulation app, and it's come quite a ways since its v1.0 debut.
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