The NetNewsWire Deal
Adrian Sutton
NetNewsWire users get a generous transition deal: two years of subscription service to NewsGator online, including synching storage, access to other NewsGator software, and all updates to NetNewsWire released in that time. Considering that NetNewsWire 2.0 was a free update, this makes NetNewsWire 1.0 look like one of the best deals in Mac history — if you bought NetNewsWire 1.0 in February 2003, you not only still haven’t paid a dime in upgrade fees, but you won’t for another two years, either. And not only will the free NetNewsWire Lite remain, but they plan to add synching features to it.
Wow, I hadn’t actually put together how good value that was. When you add in the fact that at the end of your subscription to NewsGator online you get to keep using the software (minus the online-synchronization stuff) perpetually that’s a seriously awesome deal.
Speaking of NetNewsWire, is anyone else noticing that sorting by arrival order is just sorting by date order? I’m getting really sick of news items appearing at the bottom of the list or getting stuck at the top. I’m pretty sure it never used to do this.