Mac App Store reviews

[Neil Hodgson]

I'd like to encourage those who have purchased the OS X version of SciTE to post ratings and reviews on the App Store. That includes negative reviews and low ratings if you have been disappointed. Its important that potential customers get a realistic view of the application before paying for it.

If the App Store provided support for preview downloads than that would help a lot. I've been expecting such a feature but it hasn't arrived yet.

Neil

[Jingcheng Zhang]

It's glad to see SciTE under Mac, but it's a bit expensive... Anyway, it's free under Windows and Linux.

  Neil

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[Philippe]

The price is probably realistic for a Mac text editor, but you could offer a preview download on scintilla.org.

However, with all due respect to the effort, screenshots on App Store "makes me want to poke my eyes out with a fork". Only die-hard, design-blind, SciTE fans who switched to MacOS will buy that.

[Neil Hodgson]

Philippe:

> The price is probably realistic for a Mac text editor, but you could offer a preview download on scintilla.org.

Preview downloads are normally broken in some way and that's not something I like doing. Its also extra work.

> However, with all due respect to the effort, screenshots on App Store "makes me want to poke my eyes out with a fork". Only die-hard, design-blind, SciTE fans who switched to MacOS will buy that.

I saw current SciTE users as the main initial market and the screenshots were to reassure them that its real SciTE with full functionality.

Neil

[Christophe Gragnic]

I'm not a marketing guy, but wouldn't more than twice the people buy a just half priced OSX SciTE?

[Neil Hodgson]

Christophe Gragnic:

> I'm not a marketing guy, but wouldn't more than twice the people buy a just half priced OSX SciTE?

Its possible but I won’t be trying it. Optimising sales of a product is complex.

Neil