A Great Mac Utility That Costs Too Much Money
What makes for a five star Mac utility that you don’t need but can’t do without? The utility makes itself indispensable through sheer utility, elegance, and clever implementation, right?
Usually that’s the case, and it is certainly the case with Smart Scoll, a Mac utility you don’t really need, but once you use, wonder why you didn’t get it sooner, or why Apple doesn’t have it built in to OS X.
I have more than my fair share of Mac utilities—dozens of them, most of them free, but many that I am willing to pay for.... (excerpted).
16 Reader Comments
AA Attendee said:
The wisdom of all purchases is relative to the usefulness of the buyer, so it is impossible to say if one thing is too expensive or not. As for me, I’m self employed and on my Mac all day, every day and I hit the 1200 uses that the program gives you before a nag screen- in 3 days! I ponied up the money. It’s the best thing since the wheel (mouse).
acmeco said:
TQ White II: I hate to break the news to you, but everyone is not like you and can just drop $20 like it’s no big deal. That’s a fairly large amount of money for a small utility with 1 function. A computer is a luxury for most people, but not all of us are buying brand new computers and some of us like myself have been given computers since they can’t afford one. For me being severely disabled and living on the money the government can give us, which is less than a minimum wage job, $20 is actually a lot of money. Open your eyes and look around you occasionally, you might learn a thing or 2…
TC said:
The developer also doesn’t understand that with a marginal price of zero per copy, and a downward-sloping demand curve…..
He’d make probably 4 - 6x the revenue at 1/2 the price.
Oh, and that recession we’re in? Yeah, we’re all throwing around $19 for little applications all over the place. Re-price, guy.
p.s., never used the app, so not bucking for anything personally
jkomisar said:
Doesn’t it make sense that if YOU find the value to be $19, then YOU pay the $19. Otherwise…don’t.
TQ White II said:
I 100% disagree with all you cheapskates. Nineteen bucks is chump change. In my town, it doesn’t cover one night at the movies. It doesn’t cover my gas to drive to work. You can’t buy a decent bottle of booze for nineteen bucks. I don’t believe that anyone commenting here fails to frequently waste nineteen bucks on potato chips, beer, extra driving, etc.
People that write software deserve to make a living. If it takes you more than an hour to earn the money for this, even owning a computer is a huge luxury for which you should be ashamed. I am personally very happy to work an hour to support this really sweet piece of software.
Also, I think the comments in this thread are very ungenerous and ungrateful. I think you should reconsider your attitudes about people that do good things.
Long time user said:
@NothingToSeeHere: no, the price for upgrades has been ZERO.
NothingToSeeHere said:
Long time user - the fact they are even charging for updates, even $4 per year, when GraphicConverter has charged for ONE update in 7 years of my first purchase, to me, is just another nail in the coffin. Even DefaultFolder another fine shareware utility I purchased 6 years ago, I think has had only one for pay upgrade. Again, I don’t dispute the fact that this is a fine utility nor that it adds a cool new feature, I only acknowledge the premise of the article that the price is too high vs. the value. But your mileage may vary!
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eddie said:
i have been using my free trial for a few months now and it keeps asking me to pay but i just press not yet and havent had a problem yet..not that im saying you should do that but if your really that cheap