{"id":8299,"date":"2014-01-08T16:50:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T21:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8299"},"modified":"2014-01-08T16:50:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T21:50:21","slug":"hog-bay-softwares-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/08\/hog-bay-softwares-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Hog Bay Software’s Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jesse Grosjean<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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For the last 3 years Grey, Mutahhir, Young Hoo, and myself worked full-time at Hog Bay Software. Unfortunately our sales dropped this year forcing it back to just me again.<\/p>\n

Going forward I will focus on the Mac apps: FoldingText, WriteRoom, and TaskPaper. The next version of FoldingText is in progress. After that I’ll do updates to WriteRoom and TaskPaper.<\/p>\n

I will stop selling the iOS apps. I’m sorry, I know this is disappointing, but I see no way to maintain them all myself. They are free this week and then will be removed from the app store.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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That major problem that I’m having is supporting two different platforms. And in particular on iOS I spend 90% of my effort on infrastructure issues… file system browsers, url data sharing schemes, sync, etc. Leaving me little time\/energy to actually push the actual app function forward.<\/p>\n

OS X is much easier in this regard. You don’t need to build the finder from the ground up. You get Dropbox and iCloud sync (and lots of others) for free. For document based productivity apps OS X is a much more mature system.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

PlainText has been sold<\/a>. TaskPaper for iOS is now open-source<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sad news, both for fans of these apps and for anyone who wants development of quality iOS apps to be a sustainable business.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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