let's see what the app store says

[Sherwood Botsford]

Someone pee  in your cornflakes this morning?

I don't see the Bowerbird's post as a troll.  I found it informative.
Until I read that I didn't realize that there were *ANY* other markdown
like front ends other than the one that Fletcher was working on.

Mind you it's not a discussion I've followed with care.  My text editor of
choice is vim.

Respectfully,

Sherwood of Sherwood's Forests

Sherwood Botsford
Sherwood's Forests --  http://Sherwoods-Forests.com
780-848-2548
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On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 4:00 AM, Christian Sciberras <uuf6429 at gmail.com>wrote:


> I'm sure the world will dearly mourn the failures of markdown-based

> crAppStore apps.

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> Now go troll somewhere else, kid.

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> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 11:36 PM, <Bowerbird at aol.com> wrote:

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>> "multimarkdown composer" has been out for 4 weeks now,

>> so let's mosey on over to the app store to see what it says...

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>> "composer" is #184 in productivity apps, a bit disappointing,

>> considering that it was in the top-20 when it first came out...

>> it's gained only 5 reviews over the 18 it had right off the bat.

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>> perhaps even more surprising, to some, is that "marked" is

>> at #356 in productivity apps, which is a solid indication that

>> the editing+display coupling produced by "composer" trumps

>> the use-any-text-editor-you-like generality "marked" offers.

>> (note also that "marked" is even at a much lower price-point.)

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>> and maybe the biggest surprise of all, to some, is the newish

>> "markdownnote", which appears at #115 in productivity apps.

>> "markdownnote" has been available on ipad for a while, and

>> is something of an enigma.  its big liability is that it supports

>> nothing more than gruber's flawed formulation, but its asset

>> is that it has the edit-on-one-side-with-display-on-the-other

>> basic interface which i consider to be vital for this type of app.

>> (you might recall that fletcher disagrees with me on this point.)

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>> "markdownnote" pulls off this _simple_interface_ better than

>> any other app i've found so far, which might well help explain

>> its good ranking, as there's little else of note in its feature-set.

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>> one other finding of significance is that a search for "markdown"

>> returns 9 app-store hits now, revealing new high price-points of

>> $10 ("markdown pro"), $20 ("ulysses") and $25 ("markmywords".)

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>> -bowerbird

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