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Rogue Amoeba's software is great but I can't be the only one who finds it absurdly expensive
by bowsamic 4y ago
Rogue Amoeba's software is great but I can't be the only one who finds it absurdly expensive
- haunter 4y agoPretty much the whole Mac software system. Especially the small things are crazy. Just one example: saw a $30 screenshot app which can also share and upload?! There are better open source apps that does the same and more for free. People usually defend it as “quality” though but that’s very subjective imo.
- tuyiown 4y agoIt looks like there is actually a market segment for «luxury» software. I wouldn't buy it either, but I'm not sure I've any strong opinions about it. If it puts food on the table of someone that might be not writing bleeding edge algorithmic software, but take cares of reliability, system integration, UI designs and UX patterns of a scoped problem to solve, I'll have hard time to be against it.
- alin23 4y agoIf you're talking about Cleanshot X (https://cleanshot.com/ https://cleanshot.com/), I'm using that multiple times a day for providing support on Lunar (https://lunar.fyi/ https://lunar.fyi/) and my other apps through: - annotated screenshots* of the app UI (e.g. on https://lunar.fyi/faq#bad-ddc) - instant web links to optimized videos of screen recordings, that I can easily paste in an email - the Mac recording is usually an uncompressed MOV which you have to spend time and battery to recompress using ffmpeg and upload somewhere I also use it to make optimal sized and padded screenshots for Twitter and other platforms. To do that without Cleanshot, I would have to go through an image editing software like Pixelmator, which I use sometimes for more complex tasks, but it's many times slower than select region of screen to screenshot, annotate, Cmd-C, Cmd-V It saves me way more time than what amounts to $30. It definitely is relative, if you don't have this kind of need or workflow, $30 seems like too much for screenshots. * One nitpick I had with it was that the resulting screenshots were not size optimized, so I created a free app that optimizes the app in the clipboard directly: https://lowtechguys.com/clop https://lowtechguys.com/clop
- airpoint 4y agoWhich free apps accomplish the same and more than the mentioned $30 app? I annotate screen grabs daily as part of my job and never found anything that comes close to CleanShot X. Would love to hear what's new and worthy on the market!
- haunter 4y agoShareX https://getsharex.com/ https://getsharex.com/ https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX
- airpoint 4y agoOK, I can see now how you might think the pricing of Mac applications for professionals is crazy. I asked for a Photoshop alternative for a commercial setting and you basically linked me to a Gimp. It's like when people ask for an alternative to a managed MS Office 365 service and somebody replies with "just use LibreOffice" lol. No mate, no. No way!
- lapcat 4y agoThis is why they've been in business for 20 years.
- bowsamic 4y agoI know a lot of people who refuse to buy it out of principle
- lapcat 4y agoAnd yet, "they've been in business for 20 years." But what is the "principle", other than stinginess?
- bowsamic 4y agoStinginess is a very good principle. The only people I've met who seem to look down on it are people from hyper capitalist countries like the US. In Europe we generally value stinginess