Hog Bay pulls back its iOS applications

Posted by Paul Korm
Jan 8, 2014 at 01:34 PM

Doesn’t Workflowy communicate with the Workflowy mothership? I could see a case where the developer will want to deprecate an iOS app because then they do not have the cost of keeping their server compatible with clients that they no longer support. TaskPaper just saves plain text files to Dropbox. Someday, Dropbox will change their API or Apple will do something, and it will die.

I agree with the general case that frequently we’re not really “owning” anything when we “buy” software—- it is a lease. Same for the cable television companies that uptick the prices of movies and say you “own” it. Sure, you own it as long as you pay the cable fees to access that movie in your library. Terminate the cable service and the movie vanishes.