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A quick rant...

14 08 09 - 23:07 It has recently come to my attention that the quite awesome Geocache Navigator has become payware on the Nokia devices (it was previously free for those who don't know). While sometimes, software developers have to pay the bills, the Nokia version is 30 euros... WTF!?

30 euros, for those who don't know offhand, is about $50 Australian dollars. To compare things - I recently purchased version 9 of X-Plane. That cost me a total of $62.58 Australian... including shipping - and that was when it was $39 US - it's now $29. Please could the developers of Geocache Navigator explain how their product was either a) harder to write or b) is worth more than the world's most advanced flight simulator. It's also not like there's a small market for geocachers either - in fact, I wonder how it compares to the flight sim community?

Of course, they're being nice to us by letting us "upgrade" for 15 euros - still $25, and IMO, about $15 more than the app really warrants. I'm not averse to paying for software - I do legitimately purchase stuff if it's worth the price being charged. So if it was $5 or $10, I'd buy it, because I'm not going to deny that it's a useful app. But $50? That's excessive - I could probably find a Garmin eTrex for that if I looked hard enough...

A quick look on the iTunes App Store reveals equivalent apps - Groundspeak's Geocache app going for US$10 (~$12 AUD as I write this). Geosphere is $8. Geocaches Near Me is $0.99. Geopher Lite is $1.99.

In conclusion: you have angered a few software developers who might just be planning on writing something right now.