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Posted by Paul Korm
Jan 6, 2014 at 10:00 PM
Announcement from Jesse Grosjean at Hog Bay software that it is pulling its TaskPaper and WriteRoom iOS versions and concentrating solely on the desktop.
http://blog.hogbaysoftware.com/post/72442052582/winter-2014-newsletter
Posted by MadaboutDana
Jan 7, 2014 at 01:02 PM
Actually, he appears to have sold them to somebody else. WriteRoom is still available (currently for free!), and PlainText was relaunched but then hastily withdrawn again following the discovery of a serious bug. TaskPaper is, I think, still available (at least here in the UK)?
Posted by shatteredmindofbob
Jan 8, 2014 at 01:12 AM
MadaboutDana wrote:
Actually, he appears to have sold them to somebody else. WriteRoom is
>still available (currently for free!), and PlainText was relaunched but
>then hastily withdrawn again following the discovery of a serious bug.
>TaskPaper is, I think, still available (at least here in the UK)?
According the blog post, they’re being pulled at the end of the week.
I actually considered an iPhone once, mostly for Taskpaper. I’m glad I didn’t.
And while I understand the reasons, killing off Taskpaper mobile feels like a mistake. In this day and age, a todo list is pretty much useless to me without a mobile version.
Also, that Listacular app he suggests is kinda bad, at least on iPad, anyway.
Posted by Paul Korm
Jan 8, 2014 at 01:27 AM
Pulling the app from the App Store doesn’t mean the installed copy you have will stop working. TaskPaper is pretty simple, so its probably going to work for a while to come. It used to be the case that if you backed up installed apps to a desktop then then could be reinstalled even if not on the App Store. Don’t know if that’s still possible.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jan 8, 2014 at 12:29 PM
Jesse Grosjean is an innovative developer, but he doesn’t seem to have the ability to make a plan and stick with it. In October 2012 he wrote this on his blog:
“Long term (year a minimum, probably longer) when FoldingText can do everything that TaskPaper can do, FoldingText is expected to replace TaskPaper. But that’s still far enough away to be unpredictable. Another option might be that we just update TaskPaper to use FoldingText’s engine.”
Then, six months later, instead of much new development with either FT or TP, he announced that Oak Outliner, an online app, was up and running. Go to the HogBay web site and the only two apps it promotes are TaskPaper and WriteRoom, no mention of FoldingText.
Maybe the downturn will force him to be a better business man. But I agree that by abandoning the mobile version of TaskPaper he is not getting off to a good start, as the market needs a mobile option.
Steve Z.
shatteredmindofbob wrote:
>I actually considered an iPhone once, mostly for Taskpaper. I’m glad I
>didn’t.
>
>And while I understand the reasons, killing off Taskpaper mobile feels
>like a mistake. In this day and age, a todo list is pretty much useless
>to me without a mobile version.
>
>Also, that Listacular app he suggests is kinda bad, at least on iPad,
>anyway.