Existing users, 
Tinderbox
Personal content management assistant.
Version: 4.7.1
Bye Bye Tinderbox!
Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: ruMac Wednesday, June 28 2006 @ 09:01 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Over One Year
Recommend Product: NO
This update looks fine and adds some interesting features. According to the site, it adds 55 new features though only 13 are highlighted. The software is excellent, and I did purchase it for the full price. However, that was 13 months ago and for me to be able to use this update, I have to buy a new license for US$90.00!!! No way! The improvements are not worthy of the extra fee and now that I have been with Eastgate for over a year, I must say their licensing program is antiquated. Paying for an update from version 3.0 to 4.0 I can see, but just based upon the calendar? While I will keep my current version of tinderbox, I intend to fully migrate Novamind for mind mapping, or the compination of omnigraffle and omnioutlinner.
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Bye Bye Tinderbox! - songliner
Yes, I did exactly the same. Features I've been waiting for (better, more flexible printing ranks high here) didn't appear. And while I very much liked the basic approach, it wasn't worth getting into this yearly scheme.Saturday, July 29 2006 @ 11:59 PM PDT
Bye Bye Tinderbox! - Thisbob
There's another app (Sticky Brain/SOHO Notes) that just about once a year announces a new "full version number", and charges an upgrade fee, even when it's doubtful how much actual progress was made.Would that solve the problem? Eastgate could just call the next update 3.0, and then you would pay for a whole number! Yay!
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying you're that stupid. You would look at what the feature change actually was. So why not just look at the feature change anyway and make the exact same decision even though it's points instead of whole numbers?
Eastgate climbs through version numbers conservatively, even when they're adding features.
One other thing I want to point out to anybody reading Versiontracker who does not own Tinderbox already is that when you buy it, you will receive the latest version. In other words, you will immediately have all the updates being discussed by previous posters.
Sunday, July 08 2007 @ 06:38 PM PDT
Bye Bye Tinderbox! - bluloo
Their upgrade policy may work for or against users. Buying a 2.x license and receiving free upgrades through 3.x is a matter of timing.Most other developers charge for full version upgrades but give point upgrades free.
(Wolfram, on the other hand charge$ for point upgrades Mathematica 4.1-> 4.2 or 5.1 ->.5.2 for example).
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