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Tironius posted this story Saturday, October 27, 2007

Major ‘bug’ found in Mac app Acquisition

An open letter to Acquisition developer David Watanabe about advertising in paid products

My purchased application for accessing the Gnutella peer-to-peer network, blatantly called Acquisition, presented to me today—peculiarly—an advertisement within it for Apple’s new operating system. I say peculiarly because I don’t expect purchased products, i.e. things I fucking paid for, to contain within them advertisements à la shareware for my viewing. So, I reported the bug to the software’s developer, David Watanabe:

Dear David Watanabe:

Acquisition icon.

Purchased Acquisition now advertises to you.

Acquisition is a terrific program with revolutionary ease of use for users, making it the best program for peer to peer on any platform. No other application comes close to the Mac experience like yours due to your attention to detail. These factors led me to pay for Acquisition with no regrets.

But, I recently opened my application to find a major bug. There was a picture and writing on their that seemed to indicate an advertisement, which—I know—seems ridiculous due to the previously mentioned purchasing of the product. Having given you my money for the program, presumably for private, unfettered use with no nags or advertisements (a kind of standard agreement one expects for purchased products), I wondered why on earth I would see an advertisement in the application I own. These two contradictory notions—a purchased program with no ads, and Acquisition with an ad in it hocking Leopard—lead me to believe that this must be a bug. Otherwise, it screams of being money-grubby and sleazy, which I’m sure is not you.

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Please remove it. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Tironius Complex

Update: It’s gone.

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