MacHeist: Of Cheap Bastards and Buttholes.

The short version: MacHeist is a steeply discounted bundle of popular Mac OS X software titles. This year's bundle is available (as of 03-26-09) for another 12 days and currently includes $627 worth of software for $39.

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So why is Flying Meat participating in MacHeist time around, when I blasted it a couple of years ago? Well, it's pretty simple. The folks at MacHeist fixed the payment terms after MacHeist 1, and developers are getting a much better deal now. Tada.

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I'll tell you right up front, this is a long-winded, rude, inconsiderate rant. I've been storing some of these comments up for weeks, and in some cases months, just waiting to explode.

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The Ethics of Buying Bundles

Mac users love their apps, there is no doubt about it. There are sites out there dedicated to finding and posting hundreds of mac apps or updates a day and we eat it up. Also, there are several groups that take this process a bit farther.

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The Curious Iniquities of Daring Fireball Sponsorship

Being a mac user, I'm a huge fan of John Gruber's blog, Daring Fireball. I follow his work pretty closely, and probably seed more content to Newsvine after discovering it through DF than he should be comfortable with. (I'm not stalking, I'm appreciating.)

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Look behind the painting on the front page and get DEVONnote, Hana, and Billy Frontier all for free! Sweet!

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How does a sales event that triples its expectations and donates an estimated $200,000 to charity become controversial? The promotion was wildly profitable for Ryu and his partners, but shafted the developers, who were paid relatively low fees for participating.

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An estimate of the MacHeist team's profit...

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There's been a lot of bad mouthing from various Macintosh users and developers out there surrounding MacHeist the past week or so.

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There has been so much misinformation going around on how MacHeist is hurting software developers. Daniel Counsell gives his *real-life* account on how being in the MacHeist bundle helped his sales.

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It's a great analysis of MacHeist deals. I have most of those apps (apps that I really need)... and I'm happy to have bought them straight from the developer.

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