Well as a user, I would prefer a try-before-you-buy, as was common with Palm apps, which routinely offered 7 day trials and so on. While I agree the article's

Well as a user, I would prefer a try-before-you-buy, as was common with Palm apps, which routinely offered 7 day trials and so on. While I agree the article's style comes across as whiny (not to mention dishonest), I am really quite cross that the Apple store didn't support fixed time free trials as part of its original infrastructure. $10 is not a lot for a good app, but for a lot of people it is a lot of money to just throw away for an app they don't want to use after trying it.