DISQUS

Also forgot to throw in AppZapper on the pile of Delicious Generation debris, an app that'd gotten tons of buzz for its nice icon and it's "zapping" visualization, but hasn't been updated in two years. That'd be a Austin Sarner app, who's part of the Delicious Generation group with Phil Ryu and Ray Casasanta et al. Just have a look around the apps they put out, and you'll see the trend too. Tons of initial buzz, gate-crashing revenues for version 1.0, beautiful UIs, then... nothing. Nowadays, if I find any app's trail leads back to someone from MacHeist/MyDreamApp, I steer clear.

Unfortunately, he seems to have removed it, but Matt Ball had a great blog write-up corroborating exactly this (though, admittedly, from a more sympathetic standpoint). All I can find now is Gruber's small Archive summary of the article here, but eve from just that, you get the idea...

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/02/23/ball

(hit "Post" too soon)… (At least not) until they can prove they can write and app and ship it, support it, and keep their attention focused on it long enough to be considered anything more than snake oil salesmen looking to skip town as soon as they pocket your cash.

Yes, and brought to us by a few in the group known as the Delicious Generation, known for such "all sizzle, no steak, and oh yeah, no f'n suport" apps like iClip, Disco, ANY MyDreamApp (great screenshots of the recipe app which I wil grow old and DIE before seeing ship), etc. Or shams like the MacHeist promotional bundles, where at least 3 apps in each bundle are written, co-written, or co-designed by parts of the group. Or maybe their promises to resurrect ResExcellence, which going on two years later, looked like nothing more than a press-grab. Or their idiotic attempt generate hype via a feigned "hack attempt" earlier this year, which was not only stupid but dangerous. Now they've found a way to continue revenue with micro-payment apps that require little support, do little more than add some gloss to the same old underlying architecture or free content, and reap the rewards from those who haven't connected the dots and can't easily (if ever) get a refund from the App Store. Just because the rules are such that they CAN get away with it doesn't mean they SHOULD.

I'm bitter because these olks have not only gotten some of my money, but I defended them tooth and nail in the beginning. Now I advise anyone who'll listen to save their money and never give an ounce of it to the DelGen guys again. At least not