*Update from a company spokesperson @beamMEpro, folks who bought the pro version prior to the 3.0 version update will get a free lifetime subscription, also if your subscription says free trial and you bought early, please bear with them as they are still working out some bugs. This is still the best app for sending vCards, and I still recommend you get this app.*
The top iPhone app for sending a vCard has updated to version 3.0 that adds peer-to-peer beaming via Bluetooth, along with a couple other changes. The first being the price is lower it’s now $1.99 whereas the old price was around $5.99. The one catch to the lower price is they have decided to implement a subscription service. The new update will only work on iPhone OS 3.0, so if you don’t update your OS, don’t update beamME Pro.
The subscription service will work as follows, this is from the rmbrME help page:
Along with the launch of beamME Pro 3.0, we’re pleased to introduce our new subscription feature. In an effort to bring you a constant stream of feature upgrades, and to minimize clutter on your home screen, we’ve made beamME pro 3.0 an attractively priced and broadly available subscription service.
By subscribing, you get access to all the professional features of beamME pro, plus continuous upgrades and priority support. Subscription plans are available for pennies a day – and we’re sure you won’t want to miss this opportunity to network like the pros. Subscribe today – download beamME Pro and click on Account, Subscription.
If you purchased beamME Pro, CV or Pitch prior to June 23, 2009, you will automatically be offered a lifetime subscription to beamME Pro’s blue tier of service. This ensures that you continue to receive the features you paid for in reasonable perpetuity, along with all planned bug fixes and some feature enhancements. In the future, we may release new features which will require you to upgrade to a higher tier of service, but in the meantime, we will make every effort to give you advance notice and special access.
New users (those who have purchased the app after June 23) will not be able to upgrade their subscriptions quite yet, but the app will function normally while they work on a fix. The silver lining is that previous owners are rewarded with a lifetime subscription to their “blue tier service” since you paid the full price for the app.
Do you think the move to subscription based was a smart move? I loved the app the way it is, and paid full price because I use it all the time. Do I think it’s fair that people who paid full price have to now pay more to keep the features they were using along with updates to the app, NO, they should give the people who paid full price complimentary lifetime subscriptions, otherwise I believe this app will not get used or downloaded anymore. Let me know what you think in the comments below.
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