Browsing articles from "June, 2011"

New Site Launched socreativeworks.com

Jun 30, 2011   //   by David Bates   //   All Post, Development, Web  //  No Comments

My sister last year asked me if I could build a website for her so for her christmas present I reserved a domain. One year later we have the site up and running. She does amazing artwork… Murals, Paintings, and Sketches. Check her out http://socreativeworks.com

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The Mac App Store is Killing Demo’s

Jun 2, 2011   //   by David Bates   //   All Post, Development, Thoughts On  //  No Comments

With all of these app stores are we about to see the end of the demo?
I am of the mindset that I need to evaluate software before I buy it. On windows this is not a problem as I can download a 30 day trial and then either delete it or buy it after I see if the application is going to work for what I need. This is especially important when evaluating software for business purposes. On the Mac I can no longer find Demo’s and am reduced to a paragraph and 5 screenshots to evaluate a purchase. This is simply not enough for me. Let’s take a look at Hype as an example.

While $24.99USD is not that much money I can say that I wouldn’t pay more than $4 for anything I couldn’t actually touch first. Hype expects this. As stated Hype is graphics engine for creating HTML 5 animations without having to learn canvas. A much needed piece of software in this early HTML 5 time. Now I am sure that Hype does what it is supposed to do and does it well. Wouldn’t it be better if instead of just shelling out $25 bucks to find out we could test drive the software or heck even have a 30 day return policy? I think so. As of right now if you shelled out the $25 bucks and didn’t like Hype the only thing you could do is refuse payment on your credit card. There is no return policy, There is no customer service for the App Store. So in order to accommodate this some application devs are forced to create a Light version.

I find that if a light version is available I never go back and get the full version. I either delete the light version or I use the light version and work around it’s limitations. So this is a disappointment for me and the developer for me because I don’t get the full experience that I should and for the developer because they never get my money for their hard work. I don’t mean to cheat the dev’s out of their money but I won’t waste my own time searching for another version of a program that works for me that I have for free.

I hope Apple listens and gives us either a demo download or a way to return software we don’t want.

What are your thoughts.

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