However, Ryu says that developer feedback has been positive, with nine of the 10 developers saying they are "very happy" with the bundled sale.
"That's true in sports, it's true for authors and it's true for entertainers." "Respectable agents or managers take no more than a 15 percent cut of their clients' revenue, and usually not more than 10 percent," Gruber writes. John Gruber, a prominent blogger, criticizes the project on his site, Daring Fireball, in a post entitled, " The Iniquities of the Selfish." Ryu declines to give exact figures or comment on the estimates, saying only that MacHeist offered customers discounts on volume purchases, which may skew the numbers. How does a sales event that triples its expectations and donates an estimated $200,000 to charity become controversial? The promotion was wildly profitable for Ryu and his partners, but shafted the developers, who were paid relatively low fees for participating.Īccording to several sources, the shareware developers were paid a flat fee ranging from $5,000 to $15,000 for their shareware apps - approximately $100,000 total - leaving an estimated $400,000 to $500,000 for Ryu and his partners after costs. But Ryu concedes that some of the sales may also have come about because of controversy surrounding the event. The great public interest may have been fueled by MacHeist's promise to donate 25 percent of the profits to charities, including United Way and the World Wildlife Fund.
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