{"id":4077,"date":"2011-12-30T22:57:44","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T03:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4077"},"modified":"2011-12-30T22:57:47","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T03:57:47","slug":"state-of-the-meat-2011-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/30\/state-of-the-meat-2011-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the Meat 2011 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shapeof.com\/archives\/2011\/12\/state_of_the_meat_2011_edition.html\">Gus Mueller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/shapeof.com\/archives\/2011\/12\/state_of_the_meat_2011_edition.html\"><p>I&rsquo;ve come to the conclusion that relying on Apple for any sort of syncing solution or general hosting of your data is probably a bad idea.&#8230;Well, the solution I&rsquo;ve come up with is to ignore syncing and instead redesign VoodooPad&rsquo;s document file format so that it can survive a 3rd party syncing app changing things behind it&rsquo;s back when VoodooPad is running. And I&rsquo;m so much happier for it now, and I think my customers will be too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some new OS features can be adopted almost for free if the framework is a good fit for your app. iCloud isn&rsquo;t this way, not if you want a good user experience. It pushes a lot of work onto the app. And some apps may need to be completely redesigned, shoehorned into the iCloud model. Then there are the non-engineering issues of it being tied to the App Store and whether Apple is really committed this time. So I think Mueller&rsquo;s approach makes a lot of sense, although it&rsquo;s more practical for certain types of data than others.<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/shapeof.com\/archives\/2011\/12\/state_of_the_meat_2011_edition.html\"><p>Historically for Flying Meat (and most indie Mac companies) the majority of revenue comes in through upgrades and new releases. The App Store doesn&rsquo;t provide this path, so you have to publish a brand new app to have people pay for your work. Recently Adobe took this route with the Elements 8 to 9 upgrade and as far as I can tell, people didn&rsquo;t freak out too much.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The old version is gone from the Mac App Store. I&rsquo;m surprised more people didn&rsquo;t freak out. Is it still available for those who already purchased? Today I accidentally clicked the invisible &ldquo;x&rdquo; button for an app in my Purchases list, and I seemingly would have lost the app if I hadn&rsquo;t been able to search for it in the store and &ldquo;buy&rdquo; it again.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gus Mueller: I&rsquo;ve come to the conclusion that relying on Apple for any sort of syncing solution or general hosting of your data is probably a bad idea.&#8230;Well, the solution I&rsquo;ve come up with is to ignore syncing and instead redesign VoodooPad&rsquo;s document file format so that it can survive a 3rd party syncing app [&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":[],"class_list":["post-4077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077","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=4077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4078,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077\/revisions\/4078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}