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Posted by Andy Brice
Sep 2, 2023 at 10:55 AM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
The end of Circus Ponies Notebook was the most graceless exit by a
>developer I’ve witnessed.
I don’t know anything about that particular case. What happened?
You should treat your customers fairly, because it is the right thing to do. But even if you are a sociopath, you should treat your customers fairly, but it is business suicide not to. It is weird that a vendor would totally wreck their reputation. People will remember.
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Andy Brice
http://www.hyperplan.com
Posted by rafael costacurta
Sep 2, 2023 at 11:17 AM
Circus Ponies NotebooK isn’t the one that turned into the “Together” app”?
Posted by Dormouse
Sep 2, 2023 at 11:56 AM
https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102792109
He writes science fiction now too.
Posted by NickG
Sep 2, 2023 at 02:30 PM
Development and support stalled without explanation; support forums filled with spam. Then there was a, possibly intended as humorous (it wasn’t) communication with a cryptic reference to Alphabet. Then the website and all content disappeared. The (many) users didn’t even get the most basic “Sorry it’s come to this but …”
The app kept working for a while, until OS updates stopped it.
I think “graceless” is absolutely spot on.
Andy Brice wrote:
>
>Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>The end of Circus Ponies Notebook was the most graceless exit by a
>>developer I’ve witnessed.
>
>I don’t know anything about that particular case. What happened?
>
>You should treat your customers fairly, because it is the right thing to
>do. But even if you are a sociopath, you should treat your customers
>fairly, but it is business suicide not to. It is weird that a vendor
>would totally wreck their reputation. People will remember.
>—
>Andy Brice
>http://www.hyperplan.com
Posted by satis
Sep 2, 2023 at 04:08 PM
rafael costacurta wrote:
Circus Ponies NotebooK isn’t the one that turned into the
>“Together” app”?
No, IIRC Together was an older Mac app called Keep It Together, which then morphed into Keep It, then got overhauled and renamed Together. Might’ve gone through more than one developer. But it was being sold over a decade ago.
Different developer.
https://reinventedsoftware.com/about/