App launched: Regexp Helper for Mac OS X v1.1

Our (hopefully) idiot-proof Find/Replace Regexp utility for Mac just had a major update.

New features:

  • Find-matching previewed as you type: automatically higlights all the matches it’s going to replace, while you type. Hit enter when you’re happy, and they’ll all replace at once
  • Built-in regexp Cheat Sheet: Dave Child’s excellent cheat-sheet is integrated into the app as a quick-reference for any regexp syntax you can’t remember
  • Live feedback on syntax: if your syntax is wrong, you get informed on each keypress until it’s valid again (makes it much faster to get your syntax right)
  • Faster. Much faster (some bugfixes, but also using a more advanced regexp library)

Download / upgrade from the Mac App Store here:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/regular-expressions-helper/id429461864?mt=12&ls=1

Apple’s biggest iPhone/iPod/iPad user-experience failure

Once again, Apple is preventing me from using one of our i*devices, with this dialog:

In a meeting, trying to grab an app someone just mentioned, I’ve got my laptop ready to sync, but Apple only gives these two options:

  1. “No. Even if you just paid for it, I’m not “allowing” you to run it.”
  2. “OK but only if you let me delete all 100+ of your existing apps, and you cannot get them back. Enjoy!”

Amazing that Apple works so hard to mistreat users… immediately after a purchase.

I wonder how many iPad/iPhone/iPod purchases never happen because of this intimidation? I wonder how many users stop purchasing altogether?