Re: What's that sound?

--- In [email protected], "Donald E. Stidwell" <dstidwe@c...> 
wrote:
> Gregg will probably address this himself, but the "pda-wallet" 
software is
> Pocket Purchase. 

He already did on the faq section on the new yanoff website:

http://www.palmyanoff.com/faq.htm#spyware
and
http://www.palmyanoff.com/faq.htm#del_ppur

>This software allows you to purchase the program directly
> from your PDA and also to have updates directly downloaded to your 
PDA. You
> can actually set it so it doesn't "phone home" unless you want it 
to.
> 
> This is common practice with many desktop programs, although New 
Yanoff is
> the only Palm program other than the ones from Blue Nomad that I 
know of
> that uses it 

Yes, this type of software is refered to as "Adware" and there is a 
whole industry of software designed to combat such programs. This is 
another reason people are not likely to be interested in yanoff. 
Strangely enough even Gregg asks people not to buy through pocket 
purchase (since he has to pay them for each transaction). Is 
registering yanoff directly through the pda that important? Couldn't 
he just work up a deal with handago and/or palmgear like most other 
palm developers do?

Oh and by the way, having to pay for each major release e.g. from the 
current release 3 to the eventual release 4, is a major downer, even 
if you do get a discount.

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