Nud Kays, we all have our likes and dislikes. i happen to have an apple phone and therefore i appreciate items like this. you can't please all the people all the time, i.e., you don't get your way all the time.

hunter,
why not?
I've had my way since i was very little and I'm used to it.

hunter, I think the point that Nud Kays was making, with which I whole-heartedly agree, is that if we see any non-PC oriented software on GOTD, it invariably seems to be for the iPhone -- NOT for Android.

Why is it that iPhone, which occupies only a small (but important, okay) segment of the mobile market, has "so many" software programmes offered here, and yet very little that work with Android?

Surely, based on market share, if GOTD is going to be offering software that is geared towards the needs of mobile phone users, it should have far more programmes that work with Android??

Otherwise we Android users are going to feel deprived.

Tranmontane, Re " NOT for Android."

Every day I write a short blog on the giveawayoftheday and add one or more tags to it. One of the tags is Appe, another Android. That showed me we got a giveaway for Android users on December 23, 2017:
Shining Samsung Data Recovery 6.6

There is a technical and a commercial reason we see more giveaways for iOS devices than for Android devices. If you couple an Android device to a Windows machine via USB, the PC will see the Android as an external drive and all files are readily accessible. But an Apple device was not recognised by older MS devices. Apple has produced iTunes for that, but many people have a dislike for it. So most iOS giveaways either replace iTunes all together or act as a layer between iTune and the PC user. Todays six month lend-away does that. It will not work without iTunes.

The commercial reason for more Apple giveaways is that the average Apple user is more willing to spend money on his device than the Android user and less inclined to hassle with Windows.

Tranmontane, Re "a small (but important, okay) segment of the mobile market,"

In my home country Apple has 32% market share this year.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/744305/market-share-of-leading-smartphone-brands-in-the-netherlands/

TK, Re "Again not providing a valid VAT registration number whereby the illegally charged VAT may be reclaimed."

If I buy professional software outside the Netherlands, I expect all legal on-line shops to offer to possibility to enter MY VAT registration number in their form so I will not have to pay VAT at the onset. That is simpler than to reclaim the VAT afterwards in my home country.

If VAT is illegally charged, I assume that money ends up in the pockets of a criminal and is not transferred to the Netherlands. In that case it is practical to assume I have to pay 1.21 times the asking price. If that is too much for me, I will not buy it.

krypteller, As part of the ecommerce rules in the EU as well as publishing a real world address for a EU corporate entity, IF they collect VAT on behalf of a taxation authority they must also publish their VAT registration number to prove they are authorised to collect that VAT. Otherwise everyone could charge VAT and pocket an extra 20%


If I select USA as billing address the including VAT 20% notification is removed but the charged price remains identcal. If you select i am a business and put a VAT number in the price still keeps the same price when the Including VAT notification. To me this is all wrong. If EU and Russian Federation prices include VAT then USA price that does NOT include VAT should be cheaper! And Russian Federation VAT charge being 18% the price charged should be lower than EU countries where the VAT charge is 20% the Russian Federation dollar price should be lower than the EU dollar price but should be higher than the USA dollar price that excludes VAT charges...

David May, Licence expires...and so much for this "giveaway"....eh, extended trial, pardon me.