Dave Watanabe, creator of NewsFire, Acquisition, Xtorrent and Inquisitor, announced today that NewsFire, is now free. NewsFire is a great RSS reader that competed well with NetNewsWire before that turned free. Now that NetNewsWire is free, NewsFire lost a lot of it’s business. Although Dave did not say anything about NetNewsWire in his blog post, but I’m sure that was the biggest reason for making NewsFire free. Heres what he said in that blog post:
Today’s a big day for NewsFire. After much internal debate, I’ve made the decision that as of today, NewsFire is totally free. No feature restrictions, no ads, no cut-down ‘lite’ version… this is the real deal.For those new to this, NewsFire is a news reader for blogs, news sites, and anything else that publishes an ‘RSS’ syndication feed. It watches for news so you don’t have to. When a new story is published, NewsFire brings it to your attention with some super-slick animation. Unlike other readers, NewsFire is designed with a deliberately minimal interface. The news is what matters and it takes center stage.
So why am I doing this? Call it an experiment to draw people into the fold. Call it temporary insanity. Call it good will. Call it stupidity. I’m never really sure what my motivations are, but this one feels right in my gut. I hope you like it. I sure hope I don’t regret this.
Even though Dave may loose some money in this decision, I think it was a good one. This is just another new app to list in my Top 30+ Best Mac OSX FreeWare Apps
I will be doing a post later today on NewsFire vs. NetNewsWire
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