To justify the expense, they excitedly explained how they added weather, which I don’t want in my calendar (I built my own weather station software and hardware, I don’t want their less accurate generic weather), and tracking of conference calls, which I don’t want (that all lives in my work calendar on my work machine - wouldn’t use my iPhone for work videoconferencing). Which was really nice, but now Siri can do the basics of that faster, without opening any app.
They also changed the app to have less information on the screen - information density was one of the defining features that made me prefer their previous version to all other calendar apps (and I paid them a bunch of money for a bunch of versions). Please tell me then why my app is littered with buttons that are advertisements for the paid version. But if you wanted the new features, you had to jump aboard the subscription train. Everything worked exactly the same as before. When they released V3, they didn't remove ANY of the features from V2. this keeps getting rehashed every time Flexibits is in the news. Would have gotten them to the same place with zero damage to their image. Even if they wanted to offer a nicer "base tier" to customers who owned Fantastical 2 in Fantastical 3 they could have done that by having a link in Fantastical 2 that launches 3 to let them know you owned it and all that jazz. They could then have removed Fantastical 2 from the App Store so only those who already own the app could re-download it from purchase history.
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They could have easily done Fantastical 3 on the App Store w/ a subscription model and put a one time notice in Fantastical 2 for us to download it and check it out and swap over if we want to. They caught so much flack as they forced the painful choice down the throats of the rest of us at the same time. They calculated that focusing on the customers who see the app as absolutely essential is their only focus for the future.
But I disagree that the subscription model is the only way to accomplish it.īut I've aired my grievances on this many times and Fantastical has no interest in shifting gears so I'm not going to waste time re-iterating it. We agree that ongoing development should be supported where possible. it is an essential piece of software to me.Īnd if it takes a small monthly sub fee to ensure ongoing, constant updates, i'll take the tradeoff compared to the YEARS where they let V2 just languish in both design and features.Īlso did you miss the part "All of the widgets are free to use." Weird, because i had many pleasant exchanges with them over email when v3 relaunched.to where they gave me a free month or two and got me in the testflight beta.
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