It's a buyers market -- that's for sure. It's not so much that $10 is a bad deal but more so that BeeJive 3.x for the iPhone simply doesn't work right. For $10

It's a buyers market -- that's for sure. It's not so much that $10 is a bad deal but more so that BeeJive 3.x for the iPhone simply doesn't work right. For $10 it's less functional than a $0 IM app. I doubt the developers are to blame however they should examine their choice to work for a company that will release non-functional software with a (comparatively) high price tag. They'll be out on the street working for a company like that and that's the ultimate devaluation of developers IMO. I tend to doubt these guys were saying "Yep it's ready! Ship it!" they were probably asking for more time and someone in management decided it was too risky to let the competition get a head start on Push Notification support. They may have even calculated that someone who spend $10 with no obvious ability to get refunded would perhaps stick around while the developers had a chance to fix the many horrible bugs. Bad business.