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MacHeist is a success

I’m sure all of you Mac users know that during this week, a joint effort by independent Mac programmers and users called MacHeist offered 10 high class Mac applications at a ridiculously low price (49$), while the combined pack actually cost a lot more (356.74$). 25% of the money that would be raised from MacHeist was to be distributed to various charity foundations, as a symbolic move.

I really liked this approach and decided to watch how it goes before buying my 10-app pack. When I saw that during the first day more than 20,000$ were gathered, I was thrilled. But I was almost sure that it would die out, and no more han 50,000$ would be gathered.

The Mac community proved me wrong. Today, almost 12 hours before the end of Macheist, more than 150K are gathered, over 50K over the initial target. That is amazing, truly amazing. 10 high class apps for dirt cheap, half of the money to charity. Sounds nice, no?

I’ve eventually bought my pack yesterday, I got about 7-8 of my registration numbers till today. I have to say, it feels really nice to pay for some very good apps (namely DevonThink Personal, Disco, Delicious Library, Newsfire, Textmate) and to know that at the same time, you donated some of your money for a good cause.

On the other hand, I was watching MacAppADay.com since the start of this month, but I never got the chance to get a free license, because all the good apps were depleted after a few minutes.

But MacHeist gave this idea a new twist. I hope, nay, I beg for this to happen again. I’m sure I’ll find one or two apps that will make me buy the whole packet.

A huge bravo to all MacHeist founders and contributors. And a huge bravo to all of Mac community, programmers and users alike.

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This entry was posted on Sunday, December 17th, 2006 at 7:09 pm by Sugar and is filed under Apple. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “MacHeist is a success”


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    stelabouras says:
    December 18th, 2006 at 1:57 am

    Sugar, I am considering of buying the package..but it’s too lateeeeeeeeeee [dammit]

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    Sugar says:
    December 18th, 2006 at 11:31 pm

    It was a nice package, at least for me. I wanted these apps I bought, and 49$ was not much.

    I’m sure there will be other macheists, stelio, with more interesting apps. We will have at them, then :)

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    stelabouras says:
    December 20th, 2006 at 2:39 am

    I will wait then ;)


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