May 1, 2007
Attack of the free Mac app sites
Posted May. 1, ’07, 4:09 PM PT by Aaron Freedman
Category | Internet
First, there was macZOT. Then, MacUpdate Promos, MacHeist, and many more in between. The number of free/discount Mac app sites that have been emerging over the last year is quite large, and today, another joins the ranks.
TheMacPack is a bit of a mix of macZOT and MacHeist. Each day for ten days (starting with today), a new Mac app will be revealed as part of a bundle. The bundle is worth $288.86, and while the final price will be $75, it starts out today at $30, with the price going up $5-a-day. Today’s app is a Pangea game (with a choice between Otto Matic and Pangea Arcade), which looks pretty cool.
While I’ll never complain about discount Mac apps, I do feel like this idea is many, many times overdone. Sure, macZot and MacHeist were cool, but everything else, including this, is just too much. I mean, how much farther can this go? How do the app developers feel? So, while TheMacPack looks kind of neat, the concept is now way too far overdone.
[via TUAW]
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Definitely overdone. Not only that, the design and professionalism is nowhere close to the MacHeist bundle.
Yeah, I don't think it's overdone. It's like saying newspapers are overdone - just because they've been going for decades (centuries?).
It's probably not for everyone but I think they'll have success with it.