FeedDemon goes Subscription
Nick’s taken FeedDemon into the subscription model. I love the idea, and I’m glad it’s happening, here’s why.
I’m a very happy FeedDemon user, so I thought I’d comment on Nicks recent move to a subscription model. I think it’s a great idea, here’s why.
I use multiple computers, 4 if you count my mobile phone, FeedDemon’s syncing abilities are the killer feature for me. No matter which system I use, I have access to my feeds. It looks like FeedDemon 1.6’s NewsGator integration is going to be lightyears ahead of what I get with bloglines today, auto-syncing new subscriptions, categories and allowing finer grained updates. Stuff like that requires server farms, sysadmin staff etc. I’m happy to pay a subscription for it.
The other thing, is that we’re probably better off in the long run. The two years subscription means 2 years of free upgrades, irrespective of how many versions Nick and co release in that time. The current upgrade policy for FeedDemon is that upgrades to 2.x were always going to cost us money. This switch to subscription has saved us money in the medium term. Nick’s decision to allow standalone functionality after your subscription runs out, means we’re better off in the long term too.
Now these NewsGator guys just have one major problem left. Where’s my Mac client!?
Koz July 11th, 2005 @ 07:22 AM
I already use FeedDemon’s bloglines integration. Frankly the whole ‘mark as read when fetched’ thing is too much trouble and doesn’t match my reading habits. The manual syncing is annoying too.
Aaron July 11th, 2005 @ 03:18 PM
Interesting spam there. I looked through the trackbacks of the site you linked to and Mr “Check out blogbot and greatnews integrated with bloglines via outlook and desktop!” (He must have trouble introducing himself at parties) had posted on three other blogs, exactly the same message but some of the name/website details were different. From this I infer he cut and pasted his little ad by hand. It seems to have done him some good too, if you google for “Outlook Bloglines” you get a little part of his blurble as the top link.
So is it really spam, or just “industrious marketing”?
Koz July 12th, 2005 @ 05:08 AM
Whatever it was, it’s gone now.
Jack Brewster July 15th, 2005 @ 06:40 PM
- Where’s my Mac client!? -
Now that Macs are switching over to Intel, maybe there’s a brighter future for that. Might convince me to finally buy a Mac, too. :)