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MacBreak 74: Hot Lips and Hawkeye
Merlin Mann | Jan 22 2008
MacBreak Weekly 74: Hot Lips and Hawkeye
> Hosts: Leo Laporte, Merlin Mann, Andy Ihnatko, and Rich Siegel > A look back at Macworld, Office spreads out, MacHeist, .Mac future bright and cloudy, certain gestures and more. Here's a direct MP3 download of MBW 74. I think this might be one of my favorite episodes of MacBreak Weekly. Say what you will about the podcast medium, it's amazing to be able to pull an articulate person like Rich Siegel into your conversation midway -- (~00:38:15) -- just via IM and a phone number. Very cool. So. That said. I really want the promoters and developer-fans of MacHeist to have their opportunity to respond to what Rich (and we) had to say. Clearly we all think a lot of the Mac indie community, so it'd be valuable to continue the conversation in a way that's fair and civil for everybody. Directions on how to get your voice heard appear around (~00:57:11) of this episode. update 2008-01-25 08:21:01
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 MacHeistSubmitted by ross on January 23, 2008 - 4:58am.
One of the issues that occurred to me as far as the MacHeist debate is concerned is the issue of new paradigms. As a developer, if you are asking users to embrace a totally new working paradigm it is possible that you will have to give away a lot of licenses, and maybe sell a lot of them cheap to convince people that your product has validity. I'm thinking about apps like Ulysses, Z-Write, Scrivener, iGTD, and others that really introduce new paradigms. Now I am a writer, so I am mentioning word processors, but any other kinds of apps are probably echoed as well. It also may very much help a startup generate some revenue at the very beginning of the product life. I do agree that anyone with an established product is probably shooting themselves in the foot. Thanx, Ross Winn rpg.net columnist & freelance geek » POSTED IN:
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