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BBEdit Returns To the Mac App Store (barebones.com)
Bare Bones Software this week announced the return of BBEdit, a popular text, code, and markup editor, to the Mac App Store after a nearly five year hiatus. Bare Bones Software: When the Mac App Store debuted in 2011, BBEdit was one of its first products available for sale. However, due to technical and business constraints we encountered in the store, we decided to withdraw BBEdit from the Mac App Store in 2014. Following BBEdit's exit from the Mac App Store, we had many conversations with our customers, and with Apple, regarding the issues that we had encountered with the store. In the spring of 2018, Bare Bones and Apple announced that, subsequent to the release of macOS Mojave (10.14) and the accompanying refresh of the Mac App Store, BBEdit would be returning to the store.
This was made possible by changes to the OS itself which allow Mac App Store versions of BBEdit to function to their fullest extent while complying with Mac App Store rules; as well as changes to the Mac App Store business mechanics which make it possible for us to distribute our software through the Mac App Store as part of a sustainable business model. A limited features version of BBEdit is free to download and use, while the suite with all the features is priced at $3.99 a month or $39.99 a year. BBEdit remains available on a perpetual license basis for $49.99 via Bare Bones Software's online store and at participating resellers.
Further reading: The Old Guard of Mac Indy Apps Has Thrived For More Than 25 Years.
This was made possible by changes to the OS itself which allow Mac App Store versions of BBEdit to function to their fullest extent while complying with Mac App Store rules; as well as changes to the Mac App Store business mechanics which make it possible for us to distribute our software through the Mac App Store as part of a sustainable business model. A limited features version of BBEdit is free to download and use, while the suite with all the features is priced at $3.99 a month or $39.99 a year. BBEdit remains available on a perpetual license basis for $49.99 via Bare Bones Software's online store and at participating resellers.
Further reading: The Old Guard of Mac Indy Apps Has Thrived For More Than 25 Years.
To put it bluntly, BareBones is full of shit in their logic for removing BBEdit from the app store in the first place. As a user of TW and BBEdit when all of that happened, they dropped out of the app store in protest because they didn't want to change some instructions on how to install plugins - NOT BECAUSE OF ACTAUL TECHNICAL LIMITATIONS
They could have stayed on the app store all along, you just couldn't have certain features work exactly the same out of the box (can't just run a plugin from anywhere on the FS for example and some other things that only matter to the most power of power users).
No instead, they took it off the app store, then made anyone who had it on the app store pay again for updates after having just bought the latest version. And to top it off, their own fucked up installer/updater will update you to a later version of the software ... that you aren't licensed for, and then tell you after 30 days to fuck off and get a license.
When challenged on the subject, they gave a bullshit answer, and said I should go get a refund from Apple because that would be easier than dealing with their support . . . to get a non-appstore version of the software I had just bought on the app store.
BareBone software is a bunch of greedy liars; Fuck'em
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