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2009 was quite a fruitful year, I've thoroughly revised 2 novels, written one new novel and started another one: in all this time it hasn't crashed once. I don't know any other app of such wonderful stability. Nice thing about Ulysses is that it has bunch of such gems - not to mention that you still find the best implementation of this fullscreen feature, despite the copycating, in Ulysses.
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Ulysses team invented full screen, now copied by almost every word processor. I've been using CWT for years now, have tried probably all of the other tools, and nothing comes even close to Ulysses. After a time on Ulysses you'll understand my enthusiasm about this application.
My advise is to use the try and buy versions.
StoryMill has never got much further than Avenir, an old app it's built upon. I'm a full-time writer writing almost exclusively novels, so I know what I'm taking about. As I've said, it has quite all you need as a novel-writer. Ulysses is rock stable (it only crashed a few times during the beta-period), very intuitive, well priced, well designed, fast even with very large texts / projects. The only problem of Ulysses from my point of view is the lack of commercial skills of its creators, who are unable to convey all the strengths of their own program. Ulysses is not overloaded with features, but has quite everything you need (and for a creative writer's environment, the features are rather rich).
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On the other hand, I hope that the AppStore won’t become a huge success - Apple would be too tempted to turn the Mac into another Walled Garden.In the course of years, I've tried probably all of these creative writer's apps (including StoryMill), only to come to the conclusion that nothing comes even close to Ulysses ( ). This might quickly change, but unless they get the big ones like Adobe and Microsoft (and Ableton and Propellerheads and, and, and) on board, the AppStore will remain a nice try. But for the same reasoning why Microsoft is not allowed to do these things, Apple should not be allowed to do it either.īesides all that, I have to join the chorus of some other posters on the web: There is nothing interesting in that AppStore that I don’t already own, and a lot of interesting stuff that I do own is not in the AppStore (yet).
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If people want to explicitly download, install and use that software and those stores – fine, it’s their choice. Personally, I think they should not be allowed to bundle iTunes and the Mac AppStore with their computers. Apple still gets away with it because of their tiny market share. If Microsoft had done something like that, they’d have to take a lot of hostile fire. The tight integration of the AppStore in the OS is another thing. Edit: I guess I was mistaken here you can only gift new Steam purchases, not already purchased products.
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Heck, even Valve’s Steam store allows license transfers (aka “gift”). The AppStore takes that option away from the customers, forcing them to spend more money on software on the long run. And yes, here in Germany, we CAN legally re-sell used software, thank you for asking.Īnd reselling is a big issue with the entire AppStore concept: Of course, Apple does NOT want anybody to sell their software or transfer the license to somebody else. Since the retail box that I bought explicitly allows for commercial use, but the AppStore now “took over” that license, I think this whole thing entered a gray legal area, which needs to be clarified by Apple.Īnother thing is that Apple destroyed the resell value of the boxed software. I think when push comes to shove, many lawyers will have a lot of fun fighting about this wording in a court of law once an AppStore version of Aperture 3 is used in a studio by somebody who does not own the computer on which it is installed (aka commercial use).
Since it recognized my retail version of Aperture 3, this leads me to an academic question: Do I now have a downgraded version of Aperture 3? Because the license in the AppStore says that I can use Aperture on all Apple-branded computers that I own (aka personal use). – A bunch of other installed stuff on my computer that is also available in the AppStore Things the AppStore did properly identify as installed on my Mac: After the Safari 5 re-installation, the AppStore no longer crashed and I could finally use it.
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I got it running, but the bloody thing doesn’t work well.įirst, I had to re-download and re-install Safari 5, because apparently something was broken on my Mac since the 10.6.5 update (and 10.6.6 Combo did not fix it). In good old Apple tradition, “it just works”… This is all that my Mac sees from the App Store: So the Apple Mac App Store opened for business today.
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