Comment by john-radio | Hacker News Reader

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This press release contains a lot of trivial errors.

> Compatible Scanner (in the header menu)

should be "Compatibility"

> not sustainable to run a company and pay salleries

"salaries"

> it is not provide to provide

not "viable"?

> we think a paid upgrade is fair for continuously developing, improvements, and support

"for continuous development, improvements, and support"

> support a product indefinetly for free

"indefinitely"

> It creates an artificial frontier between users and developers.

"frontier" - word choice. "barrier"?

> Developer can not inform users

"The developer" (or "A")

I'm not going to keep doing this because I'm sure that this comment would grow too long.

It doesn't hurt to run a spell checker over your public facing material, you know. I'm open to hearing this developer's criticism of Apple, but given the lack of effort in publishing this simple press release, I'm not exactly opposed to this additional "frontier" standing between their software and my less-tech-savvy friends' and colleagues' Mac computers.

Come off it.

> I'm open to hearing this developer's criticism of Apple

You're clearly not.

And while it's common not being open to considering something because something ticks you off as not credible, the effort to which you seem to have gotten to point out some typos is -- in the best interpretation -- puzzling.

Even a stickler for misspellings would just have commented "This is so badly written I can't take it seriously". There's something else going on.

The company is from Germany, possibly a single-person company.

He/she's not a native speaker, might not have access to a native speaker for proofreading and a spell checker wouldn't pick up frontier vs barrier.

Ignore the misspellings like "salleries",

"it is not provide to provide free updates forever" doesn't make sense in any language.

The TL;DR is the first thing you see on the page. They author didn't proofread the first paragraph.

* TL;DR

each manual update review by Apple causes delay and drama

AppStore does not support paid upgrades, only new App, in-App purchase or subscriptions

Apple takes 30% and that is not sustainable to run a company and pay salleries

it is not provide to provide free updates forever

if you purchased our application this year we provide a direct license, if you had it

significantly longer, we think a paid upgrade is fair for continuously developing, improvements, and support

It's a german dev using EU-english which at this point has developed into almost it's own dialect of english.

I couldn’t agree more. And on top of that: How often you have to make an emergency bug fix? why do you need make constant fixes and patches? What do you mean by paid updates? Do you want users to pay for fixing a bug, that you introduced? Do you only test on your end-users?

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