let's see what the app store says

[Christian Sciberras]

Yeah, it would be ironic of trolls to call each other "troll".






On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Sherwood Botsford <sgbotsford at gmail.com>wrote:


> 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

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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.

>>

>>

>> 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...

>>>

>>> "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.

>>>

>>> 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.)

>>>

>>> 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.)

>>>

>>> "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.

>>>

>>> ***

>>>

>>> 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".)

>>>

>>> -bowerbird

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