I love Peter Borg's software and his customer service but, unfortunately, I can't advise anyone to buy this software. Developers, you still get MAS publicity but your customers that need more out of your software are not left out. However, I don't see the point in not offering a version available through MAS and a version available straight from the developer that is not crippled to meet submission guidelines. Developers can't offer extremely powerful software, thanks to Apple, simply because indie developers need/want more sales and the publicity that MAS offers. Fortunately, if you were lucky enough to purchase Lingon before it was removed from MAS it still works great on Mountain Lion but the fact that we have to use "dumbed" down software or software that is half as powerful simply because it is only available through MAS doesn't make sense to me. Lingon 3 is a nice app but due to MAS limitations of letting the app access the entire file system users are restricted to creating/editing LaunchAgents in their own ~/Library/LaunchAgents folder instead of being able to visually see and edit items in more critical areas such as their root launchagents and launchdaemons besides all the system agents and daemons. The original Lingon was much more powerful but has been abandoned and removed from MAS.
Lingon x 2.0 registration#
Selling through MAS brings the developer benefits such as more sales and less work maintaining a registration scheme but really hurts the product and in turn end users. Unfortunately, as mentioned below, the developer has decided to sell through the Mac App Store exclusively.
Great developer, excellent communication and support.
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