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The 'Ocean Marketing guy' is a made-up character in a MacHeist stunt that spiraled out of our control. We are very very sorry.

Mac Heist has done pretty well in the past.... ;)

Me too. I bought a MacBook after Christmas, and since then I bought CSSEdit, Espresso, the recent MacHeist3 bundle, iWork, and I'm that close to buying OmniGraffle (except that one's a little too expensive and I'm getting by fine with the free eval version).

I can't remember the last time I actually *bought* software for my old Windows machine.

Mac OS X gets lots of press, but the people who build these great little software apps for Mac should get more praise.

The technology stuff:
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ThinkGeek Clearance
ThinkGeek What's new
Was a promising Image Editor. - Pixel Image Editor
Great discount on technology and sometimes other gear.
More technology discounts.
Latest video tools.
Mac Software discounts.
discounted product sales.
More Mac Software discounts.

A few local feeds:
Durham, NC food reviews. - Carpe Durham
Durham, NC drink specials.
Raleigh, NC drink specials.
Raleigh, NC Photo blog. - Goodnight, Raleigh!
Chapel Hill, NC drink specials.

for things like text editors ... I can defer looking at the product

Even though I have a TextMate license (from MacHeist), it has not wooed me away from Emacs (I currently use Carbon Emacs). However, I do look at other editors from time to time to get ideas. For example, just seeing "open, edit, and save files on remote servers" in the BBEdit feature list inspired me to figure out Tramp. Code folding in Komodo and another proprietary IDE got me started with outline-minor-mode (which I actually prefer).

All that said, TextMate's rapid success is evidence of pent-up demand that Emacs, vi, BBEdit, et al. were not satisfying. Some of it may be hype and/or fad, but it looks like TextMate is here to stay.

You're wrong, and it shows just how much you really don't understand what you're talking about. Phil Ryu tried to dispute them, but he actually confirmed them. He said that "Doubling [Gruber's] estimation of dev fees would bring it closer to reality, but even then, not quite."

So basically, doubling Gruber's numbers is pretty much where it's at. That means that MacHeist's share of the profits was 75%. Straight from the horse's mouth. Gruber was right.

Additionally, it seems that they doubled the dev's share only after Gruber's blog post, so they should thank Gruber for that additional money, even if it doesn't change his original point: MacHeist got most of the money, the devs got very little.

you can't give a single confirmed figure, or terms of the contract?

Now I can, from Phil Ryu himself:

I think it's important to note how wildly inaccurate [Gruber's] estimations are. Seriously. Doubling his estimation of dev fees would bring it closer to reality, but even then, not quite.

So basically, Gruber was right.

http://macheist.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=1874