I still think one of the most thoughtful and straight assessments came from Merlin and I will forever trust his recommendations. Some clearly rejected the new change, some endorsed it, and some were silent. Not only was Smile willing to suck it up and take what I assume are major losses but it revealed the character of their "fans." It was enlightening to see how Smile business partners responded to a change that was contrary to many of their own tenants. Here is Gabe Weatherhead of Macdrifter talking about The New Old TextExpander, and the response from "Smile's business partners."īut it also revealed some true character. I wanted to see the reaction of the community to this new direction which Smile was embarking on. Most of the thought leaders in the Mac community have had a long relationship with Smile through its sponsorship of their content, so naturally, I was curious. Smile has been very active in sponsoring blogs and podcasts in the mac community. I have been using it for the last few days and so far, I haven't noticed any glitches or pain points which have made me regret the switch. It imported all my TextExpander snippets into aText, and I was set. It cost me $4.99, and the whole act of switching took about 4 minutes. Played with it for half an hour and I switched to aText. I was not familiar with aText - Typing accelerator - Text macro utility for Mac. There are a couple I was already familiar with: Typinator - the fastest text expander in town & TypeIt4Me - the original text expander app for Mac. ![]() Took me a day to research the alternatives. I can just wish them luck and go on with my search for an alternative. If focus on the corporate customer is what their strategy is, I have no beef with that. They are perfectly justified in doing just that. It seemed to me that the product was being redesigned for corporate customers and Smile was telling me that they don't need my business anymore. I am not looking for a new syncing service, neither am I looking for collaboration features. I didn't see the utility of the new offering. Price was not a factor in my decision to switch. As an user, I am free to agree with that perception of value and buy the product, and if I am not, I can always take my business elsewhere. The seller sets a price, they think is justified. This was way too expensive for my perception of the utility of the text expansion service. I have no team members I want to share my snippets with.Why do I need to switch to an untested, unknown sync service? Some of my snippets contain data I am not eager to share with the world. I don't want another proprietary sync service.They have moved to a monthly/yearly subscription service.They have built in an infrastructure to share the snippets with team members.More importantly they have gotten rid of dropbox sync. They have built their own sync service, which lets you have your snippets on every machine you own. ![]() ![]() It does a few things which are new, notably: It is a valuable part of my workflow so I was excited about the new version. This is a product I have been using for a long time. TextExpander | Simply Indispensable version 6.0 just launched. ApTextExpander 6 and Mac Celebrities Show Their Colors
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