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Comment by fumar | Hacker News Reader

I am glad its not subscription based.

"Price is a flat fee and not a subscription. Price includes all updates to version 1 of Macaw."

I'm actually disappointed it isn't subscription based. $179 is a pretty big sum, and there's no way I can thoroughly test out the app in 2 weeks (I'm a programmer, not a designer).

I would have happily bitten the bullet on a monthly fee.

> there's no way I can thoroughly test out the app in 2 weeks

With the purpose of trials being to let people test the app, surely a longer trial (e.g. 90 days) would give people more time to get hooked and realise they couldn't live without it?

With the ease of getting pirated software the argument that people would use these long trials time after time in VMs doesn't stand up I believe, and shouldn't stop them being used.

Personally I preferred the trials that allowed "30 launches" of the program - so if I only found 5 days over 6 months to evaluate the software I was able to - and still had another 25 trial-days left to test it.

Yeah, but after reading their use and then privacy policy it sure looks like you have to be able to connect to their servers to start using it. I assume that if they go poof, so does your copies of application, short of cracking it. One would hope they have a provision for off-line use/starting it.

If you have connect to their server(s) to use it, the trial period shouldn't be based on time/date; but rather, on "time-used".

You have to sign in the first time, but after that, you should be able to use it offline.

They can't enforce their "any machine, one login in per copy" policy unless you log in each time you start it. Although one wonders how they deal with logging out, especially if that machine is offline, or just plain dead, when you "logout". Would imply a timeout or periodic phone home.

Remember-- it's a node-webkit app, so you can peek at its inner workings ;)

Yeah.. but burnt myself to that one where they release version '2', which is basically a 1.1

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