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On 13/08/07, Steve Roome <steve at pepcross.com> wrote:
> Nah, That'd be getting money for money.

Eh?

> I just find it odd personally when there have been excellent free
> FTP clients available for decades. (Well, literally).

Yeah, but "put foo.html" and cwding all over the place isn't
everyone's cup of tea.

Just keep reminding yourself that, because of your l33t haxx0r skillz,
you never have to pay for software like us schmucks ;)

> It seems to me that some of the newer payware ones are advertised from
> big sites and get people in on the bandwagon, tell their friends, it
> becomes the "recommended by leetgamerdudz.com" client and all of a
> sudden it's got a market share. Rather unlike p2p clients which seems
> to need a new backend system every year or so.

Maybe, maybe not. I used to use RBrowser Lite, which is free (beer).
It was *ok* but didn't feel as right or as OSX-y as Transmit does. I
just think Panic *gets* how to properly make Mac-like software.

> Of course, I am probably be completely wrong.  So what are all these
> excellent features in payware clients that people are buying for that
> must be missing from all the free clients?

This is going to sound terribly clichéd, but it's not necessarily
about features. It's about the app feeling at home on OS X.

> Is it the skinnable GUI ?

It isn't skinnable, AFAIK. It looks too damned good already to start
poking about with it. Why bother, anyway, when they've thought about
how it works, and looks? You just get on with using the thing to
transfer files...

Tim