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Discus 4.20 (Mac OS X)

CAVEAT EMPTOR....  

....a phrase that is beautifully apt for those good folks at MightyMouse. It means "Buyer beware!!!" I'm not buying ANYTHING from this outfit without first receiving an ironclad guarantee that the product is not going to make my previous files obsolete. Any of you who upgraded to Discus 3 will remember having paid good money for a product that should never have made it out of Beta. It took SEVERAL MONTHS for MightyMouse to wring the problems out and they did this on the money they obtained from suckers like me who trustingly upgraded to a product that wasn't ready to be put on the market. In the same vein, they have now sent me an offer for Discus 4 upgrade that says: "If you are planning to get a DiscPainter, please send an email to support@magicmouse.com with the subject COUPON and we will email you back instructions on whatever special deal we arrange with DYMO." In other words, they have NO special deal and hope that if enough of their clients write in, they could PERHAPS cut one with DYMO. To me, it's just another example of their somewhat twisted thinking. So....CAVEAT EMPTOR. I'm not buying anything from these guys without a hard and fast guarantee that what I'm buying is not (again) a pig in a poke. Oh yeah, these guys are really smart too. They sent me an email that says: "If this email address for you is incorrect, please send your new email to sales@magicmouse.com with the subject new email, and be sure to include your older email address so we can figure out which one to update." If my email was wrong, how would I have received their message??? Duh!!! I sincerely hope someone at Mighty Mouse reads this review. I don't even have the energy or desire to correspond with them on the subject. [alert admin]

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Thursday, November 22 2007 @ 12:32 AM PST

Discus X 4.00R (Mac OS X)

New "improved" Beta R (i.e. 18th Beta!!!!!)  

The ONLY important modification to Discus 4 that would be acceptable, as far as I am concerned, would be the ability to import Discus 3 files. Anything less is a waste of my time (and unfortunately my money). Sorry to be so blunt, but I still haven’t digested having been made to pay for an ‘upgrade’ that is a work-in-progress and the time it is taking to reach your “final” version makes it even more scandalous and hard to stomach!!!!!!!!!! A VERY disgruntled former fan of Discus. I doubt that I am the only one. [alert admin]

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Saturday, October 14 2006 @ 09:25 AM PDT

Discus X 4.00L (Mac OS X)

Shame on you!!!  

Discus is undoubtedly an outstanding product. The developers have not been very honest, however, in releasing a beta version, which they know is under par AND having their customers pay for it. A Beta is to iron out the bugs. Fine. But I see no reason why customers should finance the developer while they are trying to figure out how to iron these out. It’s been WAY too long since the Beta was released and STILL remains a work-in-progress. No more excuses, guys, just FIX IT: [alert admin]

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Monday, June 05 2006 @ 12:29 AM PDT

Apple Mac OS 9.2.1 9.2.1 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)

According to AppleStore…  

Europe, this update will ONLY work on PowerMac G4 computers. Wish someone had told me before I wasted time trying to download it. [alert admin]

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Wednesday, August 22 2001 @ 01:20 AM PDT

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