In a personal matter (or my point of view)

At the moment I receive requests from Macheist participants and the like whether I might want to provide licenses for missions and questions if I am not interested in such promotion campaigns.

Clear and brief: No.  No. And for the future: No!

And Yes.
Yes, I don’t care whichever enormous sum macheist earns or not. I don’t care how the participating developers got hornswoggled or not. Nobody got forced.

That’s not what I am concerned about…


What I do care about, is the system and the attitude behind it!

Everything around you goes south.
And it is exactly because for these reasons, this bundling for a promotion campaign stands for. At the thought of snatching an app for one fifth or tenth of its normal price (or value?) people loss their memory, despite the fact that they own computers corresponding to the amount others have to work for one, two month or even longer…


Shame on you. Yes, shame on you!

Monitor Version 2.1

The Tiger Version now has also an improved downloader, history and double-klick will open homepage and in the Leopard version I’ve fixed the bug with the downloader…

Monitor Version 2.0…

Tired of managing five apps/windows/tabs at the same time and of reloading all the time by hand to track your e-commerce, mail, twitter, notes, blog? So with Monitor you can do all this in one window, access it from the menubar and the site-refresh is done automatically. The segments can be customized to fit your individual needs. If needed (e.g. for Google Docs) you can use a fullscreen mode, mail attachments can be up/downloaded and mails can also be printed…

Monitor Version 2.0:
Major Update
added Downloader
added History
improved Usability
improved GUI
improved Performance
Bugfixes

PLEASE HELP TO SPREAD IT! THANKS!

German Version | Rich Text File


Dear Steve,

First of all: I really hope, your are doing well.

I always appreciate your open letters on topics that need clarification or have to be thought provoking. I allow myself to use the same medium to talk to you.
We, the developers, are aware of your wish and your motivation to create a unified user experience on the Mac, the iPhone and the software that runs on Macs and iPhones. We support you in every way we can.

We, the developers, are aware that the tremendous success of the iPhone and the AppStore is mainly based on the unified user experience. We think in the same direction, we love this platform due to the same reasons. Thus, we understand why not all applications make it into the AppStore at all or why we have to touch them up before they a available in the AppStore.

What we do not understand is how you communicate with us. To put it bluntly: We experience a lack of communication in case there is a problem.
The iPhone and the AppStore wouldn’t be such a tremendous success, if there aren’t so many great crafted applications and if there aren’t so many developers, who craft for weeks and months terrific applications for this terrific platform. We give our craftwork into your hands for review - in good faith.

In case there are no complains, everything runs smooth and after a short time the application is available in the AppStore. Woe betide someone’s application causes trouble. In that case we get no feedback for weeks and, sorry to say this, often for months.

No feedback.

No feedback upon request.

No feedback even upon an additional request.


We, the developers, understand and accept, that in case an application has defects, it does not provide the unified user experience or if there are objections concerning the security for the iPhone or the whole platform we have to touch it up. Just let us know.

But why do you abandon us. How frustrating must it feel for long-time ADC members and programming veterans to get no feedback for weeks and months.
To get no feedback at all means no chance for us to touch up the application we crafted on for weeks and months.

Steve, please make sure, that we, the developers, get the same unified experience that all your customers are used to.

In case the review-team is understaffed to respond in a timely manner with reviews, decisions and communication, get qualified people on board. In case there is a lack of guidelines for decision making, get together and flesh them out. In case it really takes such a long time to decide upon ones application, do the same thing people around the world love Apple for - simplify it.

First and foremost, reengineer the way of communicating with us.


Steve, your attention is most appreciated.
I look forward to the day it becomes even more fun to develop applications for the iPhone.


Sincerely,
Michael | MOApp

Pluto menubar 3.3 available…

added Alarms | added autodelete of ToDo!s | added autocompletion for Tags
added autosorting for ToDo!s | added customizable behavior for Tables (ToDo!s)
improved Sync
fixed sorting for Priority (in some cases you may have to set them new - sorry!!!)

Gebührenfalle

German application to track
your charges from your Telekom contract.
See your invoices, contract and used volume…

Supports multiple contracts.
Will make an extrapolation of your monthly bill.
Has got a gorgeous interface and is intuitive to use…




AppStore
Website

Because here is all new and some directories and links have changed maybe there is something broken.
Please be so kind and drop me a line if you’ve found a bug :-)

Thanks!

Monitor

Tired of managing five apps/windows/tabs at the same time and of reloading all the time by hand to track your e-commerce, mail, twitter, notes, blog? So with Monitor you can do all this in one window, access it from the menubar and the site-refresh is done automatically. The segments can be customized to fit your individual needs. If needed (e.g. for Google Docs) you can use a fullscreen mode and mail attachments can be up/downloaded and mails can be printed…