let's see what the app store says

[Alan Hogan]

I also find it quite a stretch to call Bowerbird a troll! Usually the worst you could call him is "opinionated" and "too frequent a poster for some tastes."

I found his App Store updates interesting.

Your vitriol adds nothing. 

I bet if we all got together and had a couple drinks, there'd be none of this silly name-calling. 

On Nov 21, 2011, at 7:39 AM, Christian Sciberras <uuf6429 at gmail.com> wrote:


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

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

> Someone pee  in your cornflakes this morning?

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> 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.

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

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> Respectfully,

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> Sherwood of Sherwood's Forests

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> 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.

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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:

> "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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