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Posted by Paul Korm
Jul 7, 2017 at 04:09 PM
I read that. He likes developers therefore the developer’s pricing is reasonable.
Hugh wrote:
David Sparks has a post on his Mac blog that is reasonably sympathetic
>to the principle behind Day One’s move, although it does not discuss the
>way it was done:
>https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2017/7/productivity-apps-and-subscription-pricing
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jul 7, 2017 at 05:47 PM
As I read it: He likes productivity software, therefore he likes developers of productivity software, therefore support them so they keep making productivity software.
Paul Korm wrote:
I read that. He likes developers therefore the developer’s pricing is
>reasonable.
>
>Hugh wrote:
>David Sparks has a post on his Mac blog that is reasonably sympathetic
>>to the principle behind Day One’s move, although it does not discuss
>the
>>way it was done:
>>https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2017/7/productivity-apps-and-subscription-pricing
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jul 7, 2017 at 06:00 PM
I too am “sympathetic” to the developer of DayOne. I want them to succeed. But I reread their so called explanation of what their Premium service means and find it super complicated and tenuous. I think—as a current DayOne Plus licensee—I am entitled to get the Premium service “locked in” for $25 a year. Here’s how they put it:
“...current users get to lock in a Premium subscription for $24.99 (USD)/year. (We don’t have any planned expiration date for this offer at this time. If it is going to expire, we’ll notify users via social media and in-app messaging.)”
Doesn’t sound locked in to me.
For new users to have to pay $50 a year seems prohibitive. I can’t imagine they’ll get many buyers. (Even the introductory price of $35 seems high, especially if you’ve never used DayOne before. There are other options that are cheaper. Penzu is $10 a year… As a cloud-based app it isn’t exactly comparing apples to apples, but most people won’t really care that much and Penzu is a nice app with an excellent iPad version.)
Whelp, that’s another 2 cents worth from me.
Steve Z.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Jul 10, 2017 at 08:51 AM
I think that’s what’s baffled me most about the DayOne change - it’s so unclear! I mean, WTF?
Posted by MadaboutDana
Jul 10, 2017 at 08:54 AM
The storing of docs in their original format thing mentioned by Paul earlier is a very good point. Interestingly, a lot of top Mac information managers do exactly that (EagleFiler, Together, DEVONthink, Curiota, and of course Notebooks). This makes for considerable flexibility - you can have multiple apps pointing at the same collection (with some exceptions - some of the above-named apps insist on creating their own “libraries”), and of course you can use Spotlight on any/all of them.
The issue of encryption does rear its charming/ugly head again, however…