{"id":8300,"date":"2014-01-08T16:56:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T21:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8300"},"modified":"2016-12-28T10:12:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T15:12:03","slug":"fortunate-bears-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/08\/fortunate-bears-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortunate Bear&rsquo;s Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/losingfight.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/02\/most-fortunate-bear-products-discontinued\/\">Andy Finnell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/losingfight.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/02\/most-fortunate-bear-products-discontinued\/\"><p>I regretfully announce that most of Fortunate Bear&rsquo;s products have been discontinued and support ended effective immediately. Specifically the products terminated are Illuminate, Skyscraper, Pagesmith, and Log Leech. When I acquired these products I had big plans for all of them, which suffice to say didn&rsquo;t work out. I will spare you the details, but in broad strokes I was unable to make them financially viable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As with <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/08\/hog-bay-softwares-future\/\">Hog Bay&rsquo;s products<\/a>, these were good apps from a very talented developer. He&rsquo;s also written an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/losingfight.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/03\/a-postmortem-of-failed-products\/\">Postmortem of Failed Products<\/a>. One of the common problems was the Mac app sandbox. <a href=\"http:\/\/losingfight.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/03\/a-postmortem-of-failed-products\/\">Also<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/losingfight.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/03\/a-postmortem-of-failed-products\/\"><p>I thought porting it to iOS would be a great idea. After all, there was no 1st party competition and a lot of the 3rd party competitors were crap. However, I ran into trouble on the outset. After submitting it to the App Store I got a call from Developer Relations saying they didn&rsquo;t allow &ldquo;that kind of app&rdquo; in the store. I pointed out there were already half a dozen of &ldquo;that kind of app&rdquo; in the App Store, which they seemed genuinely surprised about. How were they supposed to know what got let into the App Store?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2014-01-09): <a href=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/2014\/01\/08\/the_first_go\">Brent Simmons<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/2014\/01\/08\/the_first_go\"><p>It reminded me of my first go at being an indie developer.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Finnell: I regretfully announce that most of Fortunate Bear&rsquo;s products have been discontinued and support ended effective immediately. Specifically the products terminated are Illuminate, Skyscraper, Pagesmith, and Log Leech. When I acquired these products I had big plans for all of them, which suffice to say didn&rsquo;t work out. 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