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Message: [QUOTE="Neal Culiner, post: 19585, member: 1"] Thank you for your feedback. The "app" is free allowing you to get it from iTunes without requiring a purchase. Previously you had no idea what you were getting into and had to pay $29.99 to get the app. I didn't like it, you didn't like it. We changed Logbook Pro 1.11.0 so that you could also sync to your My Sync portal with the evaluation edition, previously you had to use a registered edition so in essence to use the iPhone app you had to pay $29.99 for the app and $69.95 for Logbook Pro PC. Now you can try both Logbook Pro PC and the app for FREE. There are two ways of going about software. 1) Pay for the software and get a perpetual license, i.e. one that never expires, or 2) Pay a subscription fee - this is called Software as a Service (cloud computing) which is the way a lot of software is going these days and/or is moving to. There are pro's and con's. The pro's are you pay once, however, to get an update such as v1 to v2 you will have to pay for the upgrade or purchase the new version altogether, upgrade pricing is not always the case as Intuit does with Quicken and Quickbooks. Every year you pay full price. With a subscription as we are using with the iPhone/iPad app version 2 you never have to worry about the software any more. We can update it time after time, go from version 2 to 12 and you never pay for the software. Instead you pay a low annual fee for the usage, I don't think $19.99 is unreasonable for an entire year of use. Consider what we pay for text messaging on our phones, as a software developer I cannot believe I have to pay $20/month to send 160 character messages through a multi-billion dollar company. It's business, no other words for it. It costs money to develop, support, host, on and on. I hope you find value in our software and appreciate what we offer in our pilot logbook products and services. Ultimately, it is your choice and I hope you choose the product that best suits your needs. My company is committed to providing nothing but the best in software, service, and support. I will stand for nothing less. Happy Holidays. [/QUOTE]

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