Sparrow and a fundamental flaw with the App Store
There is an app in the store called Sparrow. If you have not seen this it is a very nice alternative email client to Apple Mail. It was just onsale and then within a week, I read that they have been purchased by Google and the team will be working on "other projects". While I for am happy for the dev team at Sparrow, I feel both Sparrow and Apple owe me money back!
As someone who just purchased on 7/13 the Mac client “on-sale” only to hear this news I’m furious! They obviously knew they were going to be sold and to then put the software “on sale” limited time only is un-ethical. Why would anyone buy a software product only to find out that you are most likely never going to see an update on this product for either new features or bugs, where there are plenty of!
To me this is a fundamental flaw with the APP store overall. This is one area that Google does is significantly better then Apple – You can buy apps and you have a short window where you can return the product. I for one have requested a refund through the Apple store and it’s this kind of thing that makes me very cautious of buying on the Mac App Store. It’s one thing to by a $.99 or $2.99 APP and feel bad about it, it’s entirely unacceptable to spend $9.99 or more and then find you have something that is worthless!
Your Mac must have v10.6.6 (at the minimum) to have access to the App Store.
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