{"id":1891,"date":"2009-03-26T10:29:49","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T14:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2009-03-26T10:32:31","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T14:32:31","slug":"macheist-and-the-market-as-a-whole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/26\/macheist-and-the-market-as-a-whole\/","title":{"rendered":"MacHeist and the Market as a Whole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ignorethecode.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/26\/macheist\/\">Lukas Mathis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/ignorethecode.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/26\/macheist\/\">\n<p>Rather than arguing about whether MacHeist is good for the participating developers, or whether it&rsquo;s good for the MacHeist customers, or whether it&rsquo;s a nice experience, or whether the participating developers are getting great marketing, I would be interested in knowing how it affects the Mac shareware market as a whole.\n<\/p>\n<p>What influence does Espresso being in the bundle have on Coda? Does the fact that a hundred thousand people will effectively get a free copy of Espresso hurt Coda? Does it negatively impact the amount of money people are willing to pay for an app like Coda or Espresso or BBEdit or TextMate?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&rsquo;s not an easy question to answer, but I think it&rsquo;s what matters in the end. MacHeist could either be growing the market for Mac software or creating a tragedy of the commons.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lukas Mathis: Rather than arguing about whether MacHeist is good for the participating developers, or whether it&rsquo;s good for the MacHeist customers, or whether it&rsquo;s a nice experience, or whether the participating developers are getting great marketing, I would be interested in knowing how it affects the Mac shareware market as a whole. What influence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}