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Mac users may remember MacHeist, a deal about a year ago whereby one could buy a bundle of several Mac applications together for a greatly reduced price. Some losers whined about how the pricing the shrewd businessmen behind MacHeist were able to negotiate was killing the Mac shareware market or some such thing. You may remember that John Gruber posted a long rant complaining that MacHeist was unfair to the developers who agreed to the deal, that the money might be distributed inequitably, and that the MacHeist organisers were going to make too much money (all according to him, that is).
Well, MacHeist II is on now. What has he to say this time? Nothing on his blog. But if you subscribe to his RSS feed, you'll notice an entry that doesn't appear on the web page:
[Sponsor] MacHeist II Software Bundle
The legendary bundle returns… Get 10 of the best independent Mac apps, all for the incredibly low price of $49. And 25% of all sales go to support a charity of your choice. [snip]
Support your favorite indie Mac devs while helping make the world a better place.
Nice. Wasn't his point that the `indie Mac devs' weren't getting enough support from the previous MacHeist? What has changed?
The only change I can see is in the URL he uses to link to MacHeist: http://macheist.com/track/id/daringfireball/. I wonder what kind of cut he's getting for his advertising, as there are no details online about any MacHeist referrer programme.
Update 12 Jan: Mr Gruber punts.
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