#Omnifocus mail drop upgrade#
So, we make that now an in-app purchase, and we let you download the app for free, and that lets you do a free two-week trial, and it lets us provide upgrade discounts where you can prove that you own an earlier version, and then we give you a 50 percent discount on your upgrades. But for years, we had been thinking about how we sell our software in the App Store, and we were thinking about the problem of, how do we offer upgrade discounts, how do we offer free trials, how do we offer price protection? So if somebody buys OmniFocus 2 today, and we ship OmniFocus 3 tomorrow, do they have to ask Apple for a refund? Do they have to ask us for a refund? Or can we give them a free upgrade, which is what we've always done on our own store.Īnd so, finally where we landed was, let's separate the original download cost that's in the App Store, which we have, where we can only offer a single fixed price, from the cost of unlocking the features of the app. And now that it's done, I've almost forgotten about it, because it's just part of the environment now. Ken: Yeah, that was kind of a big change, and it was something that we had to think about for a number of years before we finally landed on that solution. We changed the way our licensing for our apps works. So, what did we get done last year? 2017.
Ken: Nice, pinball-inspired neon graphic.īrent: Captures the essence of the company very well. Did we have a cake? We do celebrate releases with a game day, often, but there may not have been a cake. Our listeners want to know, was there a cake?īrent: I don't even know. Last year was a special year, in that it was Omni's 25th anniversary. So, fair warning, it might be more than 30 minutes. We're looking back at last year, and looking forward to what's coming this year. In the studio with me today is Ken Case, the CEO of The Omni Group.
Music!īrent: I'm your host, Brent Simmons, and I am massively relaxed today because I just got out of a massage, which is one of my favorite perks of working at Omni.
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