![]() ![]() I’m not sure I’d trust MacUpdate on my desktop yet, given my experience of being shut out with searches not from the home page and having a moderator initially delete feedback as a personal favour to a developer friend. In fact I think the first search should include only items which include both terms with an offer for a subsequent search for items with either term. Right now if you use two terms, one which is common and the other which is rare the results are too long at 12 pages and heavily weighted to items which are only iTunes related. I think the rankings should be heavily weighted to items including all terms. I’d like it to be easier and more intuitive to do a search including both terms, i.e. I did notice that the search results are quite good. Great to hear that you have more improvements underway! But all in all, as Mac users we are quite fortunate in our developers and our shareware sites.Įspecially in comparison to the Windows world. I’m not quite sure what ails but at least they are there as an insurance policy if MacUpdate starts to go off the same overly monetized rails as Versiontracker. It would be nice if CNET would pull about three quarters of the javascript and half the ads off of Versiontracker so we could go back to a two horse race. We do have some very bad copycat developers like Koingo Software (from beautiful BC just like me) who hawk their second class wares everywhere, but you can usually suss them out pretty quickly. Previously we had only had one and then two Mac users in the company. Straightforward access to high quality shareware is another reason I decided to take Foliovision Mac-centric at the end of 2009. If a Mac user sees any other award badges, s/he will ignore those banners. On any of them fake feedback is likely to be called quickly. So in the Mac universe there are just three sites of any import. ![]() What kind of nuisance am I talking about? There was a period of six months where it was impossible to search MacUpdate from outside the site – you had to load their overly busy, distracting home page to do so. came along just in time and made MacUpdate pay more attention to the convenience of users of the site first. On the other hand, perhaps Nate and team have caught and warned 200 developers but it didn’t get to blacklist levels.Ī couple of years ago, I had the feeling MacUpdate might become a bit smug as VersionTracker atrophied. Unfortunately the list is only three developers long, so I’m not inclined to believe it’s complete. If a developer encourages sock puppet votes he’s blacklisted. In any case, it is standard practice for the badge to link directly to the developer’s site. If a developer posts an incorrect Versiontracker or MacUpdate badge he or she will be asked to pull the badge down immediately. They allow developers to display user ratings badges on their sites like this: In any case, these three sites don’t hand out prizes. In the end, after some comments being pulled and the tempest in a teapot rising higher Nate finally intervened and put the review back online and warned off the developer. One developer had friends inside Macupdate whom he tried to use to censor commentary ( Misha, I believe). Even I’m aghast at some of the things I read on Macupdate in particular (Nate, for the most part, please keep them up, following the profiles of some of these curmudgeons is incredibly entertaining and keeps people coming back to Macupdate). The ratings and comments on all three are legitimate and minimally censored in favour of the developers. In the Mac universe, there are only three software download sites of any import with and battling for top dog for the last three years, with trailing. Sixteen 5 star awards would be enough to give even the worst piece of malware a veneer of respectability.īuy a Mac. His bogus soft included a screenshot like this:Īndy’s fake app was approved and listed on 218 software directories. He submitted a bogus piece of software to 1033 sites. A gentleman by the name of Andy Brice already has. No, no one has ever looked at the software. It turns out just by submitting software. Where do these ugly little banners come from and how the software developers earn them? While out shopping online (how’s that for a pleonasm) I’ve often seen sterling awards pages for what looks like really rubbish programming. So we have contact with a lot of software. This approach allows us to offer our clients more service within their budget. We don’t like Adobe much for price gouging so we buy all kinds of graphics bits and bobs toīasically our rule is that if a software program can do it faster, then have a software program do it. We have all kinds of weird stuff running for checking web rankings and logging backlinks in our SEO business. We buy and use a lot of software here at Foliovision. ![]()
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