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How many bundles a year would you be willing to buy? I mean everyones complaining about how MacHeist 4 isnt coming. But, how many bundles is too much a year?
September 19, 2010 7:05 am
Depends of the software -- if I have use for the software, I'll buy the bundles.
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September 19, 2010 8:34 am
I've noticed that the recent bundles have more 'filler' apps, that you wouldn't buy for full price anyway.
MacHeist seems to have apps that are good in their own right, and you might buy anyway.
Hope they can find enough apps to continue this, and I don't mean ios apps.
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September 19, 2010 11:01 am
Depends of the software! If you put good software we will buy it!! no doubt!
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October 26, 2010 6:50 pm
Now that I have the basics for most everything, probably 1-2 a year max. Just not valuable to have more of the same.
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October 26, 2010 7:42 pm
I suspect Apple's Mac App Store is going to put a stop to a lot of these bundles. My 2.5¢
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October 27, 2010 1:45 am
MacGizmo wrote:
I suspect Apple's Mac App Store is going to put a stop to a lot of these bundles. My 2.5¢
I think that too.
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October 27, 2010 2:48 pm
I agree. It will make developers much more competitive. Macheist and other bundle sites will have to rely on apps that are not in the app store, which will be a decreasing number, until they go extinct within a couple of years. That's what it looks like to me anyway.
October 27, 2010 4:23 pm
dennishouston wrote:
I agree. It will make developers much more competitive. Macheist and other bundle sites will have to rely on apps that are not in the app store, which will be a decreasing number, until they go extinct within a couple of years. That's what it looks like to me anyway.
This doesn't make sense because developers aren't limited to just selling their apps through the Mac App Store. If we ever want to put together a bundle of 99¢ fart apps, then yes, the Mac App Store would make our jobs much harder.
The one significant thing that the Mac App Store will do, from my point of view, is bring new awareness to the masses about Mac software. Many Mac developers have been starting to abandon the Mac platform in favor of greener pastures with iOS development and this honestly has had me concerned for the long-term future of MacHeist. But I think the Mac App Store will go a long way to rejuvenate things for the long haul... which means that I could be working on missions and puzzles and stuff when I'm well into my 80s. 
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October 27, 2010 9:02 pm
johnred wrote:
But I think the Mac App Store will go a long way to rejuvenate things for the long haul... which means that I could be working on missions and puzzles and stuff when I'm well into my 80s.
So there is going to be a MacHeist 4!
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October 27, 2010 10:23 pm
choma wrote:
johnred wrote:But I think the Mac App Store will go a long way to rejuvenate things for the long haul... which means that I could be working on missions and puzzles and stuff when I'm well into my 80s.
So there is going to be a MacHeist 4!
more importantly, so you're planning on living until 80!
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October 27, 2010 11:42 pm
j3snyder wrote:
choma wrote:johnred wrote:But I think the Mac App Store will go a long way to rejuvenate things for the long haul... which means that I could be working on missions and puzzles and stuff when I'm well into my 80s.
So there is going to be a MacHeist 4!
more importantly, so you're planning on living until 80!
Or, putting them both together, MH4 should come within the next several decades!
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October 28, 2010 5:37 am
I'm waiting for MAC APP STORE!!! 
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November 1, 2010 2:47 pm
I am willing to buy one or two good bundles a year. Most of the bundles lately weren't worth it, either duplicate apps to what I have, apps I don't care to have, or apps that are similar enough to ones I have to not be worth it. That being said, I haven't actually bought a bundle since MH2, so I have about 4 bundles of buying saved up.
As for the Mac App Store, I see it mostly increasing the visibility of smaller devs. There are just so many apps out there that you never know about until you see their offering in a bundle or as a MU Promo or the like. The App store would put a great deal of the available mac apps in a central place to be more easily discovered, hopefully more so than the current software directory on Apple's site.
November 3, 2010 6:33 am
March 31, 2011 3:59 pm
one, two, three... depends on the apps and price. If I can get one or two great apps that I do not have for a good price then yes. Most bundles of late are just, as others have put, fillers or many of the apps are those I already have. I have not purchased a bundle since the last MH mini.
There is no limit on the number of bundles I will look at so bring on the bundles and show me what you have and then I'll decide.
March 31, 2011 7:36 pm
Given the rule of not including any apps in MH4 that have appeared in bundles sold on other sites, I doubt there are any apps left that qualify. I've seen so many bundles in the last year I stopped keeping track of them.
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April 2, 2011 3:11 pm
No such thing as too many bundles. At least so far. Even with bundle saturation in past year or so, I will say that all new bundles get me at least a little giddy when I first peek at them. Though several in recent months have had excitement go down in less than 30 seconds of overviewing the apps.
Currently, it is the nano bundle-like scores that interest me most. 6 apps for $20 can be hard to pass up, unless it contains Wondershare type apps.
So far, MAS is dragging things down in my opinion. Feels like apps are being devalued even if reality is not much has changed. Just seems like we are months (not years) away from devs making their shiny new apps at $9.99 or less for stuff that just 2 years ago was $25 or more. Again, the reality on this may be different than what I'm purporting, but advent of MAS has felt to me that cool quality apps are now hard to come by.
April 6, 2011 7:06 am
About the MAS:
What if (hypothetical situation) I sell a $25 application myself (assume no additional fees, which isn't realistic but let's just go with that for now).
Now what if I sell that same application for $10 on the MAS (BEFORE the cut).
Using simple numbers, what if I sell 4x normal sales on the MAS (foreseeable because more people see it and it's also cheaper). That totals out to be $28 revenue per 4 units. This means the developer is making more money than before, more users can enjoy the app, and users are spending less money.
From a single user's point of view, they can afford a larger number of applications where before they may not have been able to afford them.
Only time will tell what that sales multiplier figure is (4x is just speculative, it could be much lower or much higher) but that, I think, will dictate how much lower MAS apps will go in comparison to the "normal" prices.
Just my $.02
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April 6, 2011 1:56 pm
I would at least like 1 bundle from Macheist per year...
April 6, 2011 7:54 pm
I am the Bundle-Meister! Show me a bundle that has an app I want and a good value proposition and it's all muscle memory. What I can't stand is the garbage bundles. Even MacFriendly has gotten me a few times. I check MUPromo most every day, but what would really get my juices flowing is a good MacHeist.
April 7, 2011 5:58 am
johnred wrote:
dennishouston wrote:I agree. It will make developers much more competitive. Macheist and other bundle sites will have to rely on apps that are not in the app store, which will be a decreasing number, until they go extinct within a couple of years. That's what it looks like to me anyway.
This doesn't make sense because developers aren't limited to just selling their apps through the Mac App Store. If we ever want to put together a bundle of 99¢ fart apps, then yes, the Mac App Store would make our jobs much harder.
The one significant thing that the Mac App Store will do, from my point of view, is bring new awareness to the masses about Mac software. Many Mac developers have been starting to abandon the Mac platform in favor of greener pastures with iOS development and this honestly has had me concerned for the long-term future of MacHeist. But I think the Mac App Store will go a long way to rejuvenate things for the long haul... which means that I could be working on missions and puzzles and stuff when I'm well into my 80s.
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October 30, 2011 4:42 am
Typically a decent bundle, the current MacUpdate bundle is filled with crapware this holiday season. Half the apps in the bundle are junk, or have freeware alternatives. A few more have been given away for free by the developer the last several months in promotions (The DVD Ripping app comes to mind - I have several licenses for it from the dev giving it away on Facebook this past year). The rest of the apps are nominally useful filler.
The amount of bundles out there is crazy, and 9 out of the 10 apps in each one of them are moderately useful at best. It's diluting the bundle promotion to the point where I expect to see garbage in them.
Since MacHeist have stated no apps found in other bundles will be permitted in the next MacHeist - I suspect that means there will be an extremely niche group of apps in the next bundle - if it ever comes.
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December 5, 2011 5:44 pm
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