Slowly but surely, all the big Firefox plugins will be available for Safari due to all requests and complaints. Today, StubleUpon, one of the biggest plugins used in Firefox has become available thanks to Stumbi. Once Stumbi is installed, there will be a new toolbar in the menu bar called “Stumbi.”
It will prompt you to enter your StumbleUpon username and password and then you are set to go. You can stumble, rate sites and even send sites to your friends. Stumbi is a great solution to a long lived problem for Safari users.
The thing is… after 100 stumbles, you must donate $2 to keep using it. I don’t really understand this. If you’re going to sell something for $2, you might as well make it free. Or at least make it $5 and actually make some money off of it. Just $2 seems kind of pointless to me. I am not going to pay the $2 because I don’t really care for StumbleUpon, but I am sure the $2 is nothing for people who actually use StumbleUpon and like Safari.
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May 27th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Got home from school, opened up NewsFire, saw that StumbleUpon was coming to Safari, got excited, read the post, lost all excitement. Two dollars for 100 stumbles? That makes no sense to me.
May 27th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
You just explained exactly what happened to me. I’m not joking I actually use NewsFire also lol
May 27th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
I cannot agree more. First off, I was never a HUGE fan of StumbleUpon. To me… well maybe I’m missing something but it never seemed that necessary or even exciting. And 2 dollars!??! Gosh makes me hate it even more. Probably cause I’m a cheap loser, but at least make it more than 2 dollars (I’m sure some people who love SU will complain and talk about being appreciative for the cheap price). Btw I love the new look Jacob. To me a blog seems like a better idea than a site for Apple news (considering how there are so many others that are quicker and bring the same information to the table).
Good post
May 27th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Thanks John. Yeah, I am glad that I have changed it because there it really did not fit what I was writing about. I also could never compete with all the other popular mac sites. BTW, my name isn’t Jacob, my last name is Jacobs….I don’t really care, just thought you should know.
Thanks for the comment
May 27th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Yeah… umm idk why I said Jacob. It’s actually quite embarrassing. My sincere apologies Gabe.
May 29th, 2008 at 6:39 am
Hi!
Kevin, the price isn’t $2 for 100 stumbles, but rather 100 stumbles for free or $2 for unlimited stumbles. Shareware, simply. I’m sorry if this wasn’t clear from the website?
Cheers
Eli
May 29th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Eli, sorry for the misunderstanding. I knew that it was 2 dollars after 100 stumbles and then unlimited after that. I’m sorry for making it unclear to some of my readers.
-Gabe
May 29th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
No problem Gabe!
And, to answer the question in the blogpost, the reason for the $2 pricetag is simply that this is what I think the application is worth =) I myself would definitely pay $2 for this, but not $5.. And didn’t want to charge more than I thought it was worth!
Cheers
Eli
May 29th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Yes, I don’t disagree with pricing something more than it’s worth, but if you think it is worth $2, you should make it free…
But then again, thats just a consumer’s perspective and I am sure it’s well worth if for you, the developer.
I hope you know that I wasn’t trying to be condescending in the blog post… I was just stating an opinion. I think stumbi is great and It’s a really good contribution to the Safari user community. I thank you for that
-Gabe