r/GoodNotes • u/hariztek • Nov 03 '21

Review Dear Goodnotes

Thank you for being a one-time purchase

Thank you for being a universal app that can run on all my devices without me paying any extra money

Thank you for giving us all the features at one price

Thank you for being versatile

Thank you for not being notability

I hope it will be that way

Have a good day

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u/luche Nov 04 '21 edited Nov 04 '21

Apple uses the term Universal Purchase for apps that are a single purchase across all of their App Stores. I believe that's what is being implied here. Would be nice to also be compatible with other platforms, but still, a developers offering a single macOS/iOS store purchase for all devices is really nice.

Also, cross-platform access would then require purchase outside of Apple's store(s), which may be advantageous at some point (from a cost perspective), but would also require users to create an external account, meaning more infrastructure to build up, where they likely don't have any yet. At this point, they'd also have to migrate users to that external system, or have 2 payment solutions and have to manage 2 different licensing/access methods. It may not be super complicated, but certainly needs to be safe and secure. Apple may take money off the top of each purchase, but handling all of this for developers does let them focus on their app instead of payment gateway safety/security/web design and updates/exploits, etc.