let's see what the app store says

[David Chambers]

Alan Hogan <alanhogan at gmail.com> wrote:

I bet if we all got together and had a couple drinks, there'd be none of

> this silly name-calling.



Great point. At the end of the day we're all intelligent people with common
interests who enjoy discussing ideas. Exactly the sort of people I like to
drink with.

David


On 21 November 2011 12:00, Christian Sciberras <uuf6429 at gmail.com> wrote:


> Yay! Never mind trolls, let's all burn Apple haters!

>

> Oh I know, while at it, let's all start posting at disjointed threads too.

>

> Who cares about flooding mailboxes, just ignore an email or two, no?

>

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> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Thomas Humiston <tom at jumpingrock.net>wrote:

>

>> Never mind, I found the link.

>>

>>

>>

>> On Nov 21, 2011, at 11:56 AM, Thomas Humiston wrote:

>>

>> > Does this list have a moderator?

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> > On Nov 21, 2011, at 11:38 AM, Chad Nelson wrote:

>> >

>> >> On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:22:25 +0100

>> >> Christian Sciberras <uuf6429 at gmail.com> wrote:

>> >>

>> >>> He's been called a troll several times before, what make his Apple

>> >>> propagandist remarks any better now?

>> >>>

>> >>> Or is it that there's too much Apple fanboys to let it pass through,

>> >>> hmm?

>> >>

>> >> Apple may be a religion to some, but it's also the manufacturer of one

>> >> of the arguably most popular platforms in existence today. For a

>> mailing

>> >> list devoted to Markdown, talking about its adoption on that platform

>> >> seems pretty on-topic.

>> >> --

>> >> Chad Nelson

>> >> Oak Circle Software, Inc.

>> >> *

>> >> *

>> >> *

>> >>> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Alan Hogan <alanhogan at gmail.com>

>> >>> wrote:

>> >>>

>> >>>> 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".

>> >>>>

>> >>>>

>> >>>>

>> >>>>

>> >>>>

>> >>>>

>> >>>> 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

>> >>>>> Sherwood's Forests --  http://Sherwoods-Forests.com

>> >>>>> 780-848-2548

>> >>>>> 50042 Range Rd 31

>> >>>>> Warburg, Alberta T0C 2T0

>> >>>>>

>> >>>>>

>> >>>>>

>> >>>>>

>> >>>>>

>> >>>>> 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.

>> >>>>>>

>> >>>>>>

>> >>>>>>

>> >>>>>>

>> >>>>>>

>> >>>>>>

>> >>>>>>

>> >>>>>>

>> >>>>>> 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...

>> >>>>>>>

>> >>>>>>> "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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