{"id":17645,"date":"2017-04-05T14:13:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T18:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=17645"},"modified":"2017-04-07T13:21:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T17:21:54","slug":"the-2016-panic-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/05\/the-2016-panic-report\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2016 Panic Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/panic.com\/blog\/the-2016-panic-report\/\">Cable Sasser<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/panic.com\/blog\/the-2016-panic-report\/\">\n<p>2016 was clearly the Year of Firewatch for us. Thanks to Campo Santo&rsquo;s heroic efforts, Firewatch shipped right on time on Mac, PC, and PlayStation 4. We later added an Xbox One port.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>We shipped 34 software releases over the course of 52 weeks in 2016, and three of them were significant new-feature updates. Each one of them was fully tested and qualified by our expanded and improved QA team.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Trying to do macOS quality work on iOS cost us a lot of time for sadly not much payoff. We love iOS, we love our iPhones, and we love our iPads. But we remain convinced that it&rsquo;s not &mdash; yet? &mdash; possible to make a living selling pro software on those platforms.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Congratulations on 20 years!<\/p>\n<p>For 2017, I&rsquo;m looking forward to Transmit 5 and its support for a lot more cloud storage services. And hopefully Apple will remove the Firewatch <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cabel\/status\/849318195806777344\">rip-off<\/a> from the App Store.<\/p>\n\n<p>Update (2017-04-07): <a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/panic-report-2016\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/panic-report-2016\/\">\n<p>There are probably plenty more pricing models than what I&rsquo;ve written here, but none I&rsquo;ve seen yet seem capable of addressing the financial viability of this specific software niche. It&rsquo;s a tricky problem. Without a solution, though, I question the long-term viability of independently-made professional-grade software on iOS.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cable Sasser: 2016 was clearly the Year of Firewatch for us. Thanks to Campo Santo&rsquo;s heroic efforts, Firewatch shipped right on time on Mac, PC, and PlayStation 4. We later added an Xbox One port. [&#8230;] We shipped 34 software releases over the course of 52 weeks in 2016, and three of them were significant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,101,1355,31,1380,30,1381,420,243],"class_list":["post-17645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-business","tag-firewatch","tag-ios","tag-ios-10","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-12","tag-panic","tag-transmit"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17676,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17645\/revisions\/17676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}