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I enjoyed Panic's polished applications since way back when but the way they simply drop paid for apps with an existing userbase due to "lack of revenue" (Status Board [1], Transmit on iOS [2], Unison [3] and Audion [4]) really left a sour taste in my mouth.

Transmit for iOS was a particularly big loss for me, so much so that I personally am going out of my way to avoid their products.

[1] https://panic.com/blog/the-future-of-status-board/

[2] https://panic.com/blog/the-future-of-transmit-ios/

[3] https://panic.com/blog/the-future-of-unison/

[4] https://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/



They also pulled original Prompt from the AppStore because, apparently, it completely impossible to rebuild it for the x64 target.

"Luckily" it was replaced by Prompt 2 that was basically the same thing slightly improved (but "rebuild from the ground up" for reasons unknown) that you had to buy afresh.

That was not nice.




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