{"id":318,"date":"2006-12-18T18:27:24","date_gmt":"2006-12-18T22:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/?p=318"},"modified":"2006-12-18T18:27:24","modified_gmt":"2006-12-18T22:27:24","slug":"macheist-is-a-heist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/2006\/12\/macheist-is-a-heist\/","title":{"rendered":"MacHeist is a heist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macheist.com\">MacHeist<\/a> was one of the most well-known Mac software related website a week ago. Sure, a lot of publicity for the programs involved, such as a so called useless buggy program Disco.<\/p>\n<p>Although it is a great deal for customers to buy 8 programs for $49, it is really unfair for developers. Many people don&#8217;t believe so. The good reason for mostly positive responses is that, the heist is behind the sugar coat of 25% charity donation and great discount for customers.<\/p>\n<p>Truth is, because developers were paid for a flat rate fee, the more bundle MacHeist sell, the more money goes to MacHeist people, in a disproportional way. And some people have done <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2006\/12\/iniquities_of_the_selfish\">some good math about this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I resisted not to buy from MacHeist, because I feel it is unfair for those developers. Think about it, how disgusting it is to say &#8220;week for indie Mac developers&#8221; while you people earned the largest chunk of revenue? What a shameless lie, for money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MacHeist was one of the most well-known Mac software related website a week ago. Sure, a lot of publicity for the programs involved, such as a so called useless buggy program Disco. Although it is a great deal for customers to buy 8 programs for $49, it is really unfair for developers. Many people don&#8217;t&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/2006\/12\/macheist-is-a-heist\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MacHeist is a heist<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it","category--apple","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}