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I still feel quite bitter about the way Growl handled their move from a free, open-source app to the paid App Store version. I understand their desire to make m

I still feel quite bitter about the way Growl handled their move from a free, open-source app to the paid App Store version. I understand their desire to make money from their work, but they utterly abused their own notification system to incessantly remind me to upgrade. I had installed Growl on several family members' computers and it was quite frustrating for me to have to explain these messages and uninstall the software for them. It seems to me that requiring the paid version for upgrades and/or Lion compatibility and leaving existing versions unmolested would have been a more diplomatic approach. I feel bad saying this, but I don't feel much sorrow over the fact that Notification Center will likely obsolete the product.

masklinn 15y ago
> It seems to me that requiring the paid version for upgrades and/or Lion compatibility and leaving existing versions unmolested would have been a more diplomatic approach. They did handle the transition badly on PR grounds, but the way things actually were was very different: MAS's Growl application actually is mostly for configuration purposes, the new growl framework embeds the notification display in the apps themselves (see Mist) and you don't need growl at all to see notifications. > I feel bad saying this, but I don't feel much sorrow over the fact that Notification Center will likely obsolete the product. Notification Center is only for MAS applications, so non-MAS or cross (MAS and non-MAS) applications wanting to display notifications will still go through Growl.