So, in an effort to be fair, and reward their loyal customers, Omni will actually give a $10 rebate so that we end up paying the same as those who go out and buy the Universal app when it’s released. This means that folks like me who bought both apps already, actually paid $50 – $10 more than what the new, universal app will sell for. In fact, Omni is going even one step further – something they really don’t have to do at all – and offering anybody who already bought both the iPhone and iPad apps to e-mail them and get a $10 refund. Which, by the way, is $10 less than Omni was charging before for the iPhone app ($20) and iPad app ($30) together. If you have neither iOS app, you pay $40 for the new, universal app that runs on both the iPhone and the iPad. If you only have the iPhone app, you pay $20 to ‘upgrade’ to the universal version by ‘completing the bundle’ that includes that app.
SHOULD I UPGRADE TO OMNIFOCUS PRO UPDATE
If you have the iPad app already, you get a free, universal update at no cost to you. So the only people who will need to shell out any money at all to Omni are those who haven’t already purchased the iPad app. Plus, if you purchased the iPad app and the “Pro” in-app upgrade, that will continue to work, since you’re really just getting an update to the iPad app that runs on the iPhone as well. The bundle pricing will be setup in such a way that anybody who already owns the iPhone app will get the new, Universal app, for only $20. This will include “OmniFocus for iPhone” and “OmniFocus Universal (formerly OF for iPad).” No new users will ever want to buy this bundle – it will be there exclusively so that those who already bought “OmniFocus for iPhone” can use Apple’s “Complete my Bundle” feature to only pay the pro-rated price for the app you don’t already have. So, basically – as I understand it – there will be an “OmniFocus Bundle” on the App Store. This ‘bundle’ is strictly App Store trickery when it comes right down to it, basically allowing Omni to provide an “upgrade price” for existing users of the iPhone app because they’ve already bought one of the apps in the bundle. Now, since the new, ‘Universal’ app is going to sell for $40, and the App Store doesn’t allow “upgrade” pricing (blame Apple for that one, again), Omni has found a clever workaround by creating a bundle.
SHOULD I UPGRADE TO OMNIFOCUS PRO UPGRADE
You can argue that Omni should have provided a free upgrade to the iPhone app, but I don’t think that’s reasonable if for no other reason than pure fairness to the users who already paid more for the extra features in the iPad app. It wasn’t as advanced as the iPad app – no support for building perspectives, review mode, etc., so it’s a somewhat logical course of action that users would need to “upgrade” to get the additional functionality. On the other hand, the iPhone app will remain pretty much ‘as-is’. If you’ve bought the iPad app, you’re basically getting a free upgrade that will work on your iPhone as well. What is happening is the iPad app is becoming the Universal app. You won’t need to buy any bundles, you won’t need to buy any additional apps. In fact, I’m kind of happy they’ve found a way to get around that.Īs I understand the posts from (who can jump in and correct me if I’m wrong), if you’ve already “paid for 3 of our apps” you’ll get the universal update for free. While I’ll admit the whole “Universal” update issue is needlessly confusing, I think we can blame the way the App Store works for that more than Omni. There’s a definite misconception here that I think needs to be corrected. Whats that you already paid for 3 of our apps? No this is totally different, so you pay me $$$ and you can the Universal experience and well bundle it up.
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