Apple to Shut Down Texture App for Windows Following Acquisition

[Michael Goff]

To keep things working smoothly, you fix your app, not shut it down.

Maybe it wasn’t financially viable on Windows 10?

 

[PseudoRegister]

It's been many years now BUT of a similar nature, I still harbour a lot of resentment towards Adobe for purchasing and killing off Macromedia FreeHand.

Me too.

 

[convergent]

RIM’s downfall:

• iPhone was a decade ahead
• RIM management had too much hubris to realize it
• Once they finally did, it was too late for a third platform to grow — they got squeezed between iOS and Android

See also: Windows Mobile

The iPhone was not a decade ahead. There was nothing new in the iPhone. The App Store is what allowed the iPhone to disrupt the market.... cheap/free apps. We can agree to disagree why RIM went the way of dinosaurs. I tested RIM's email client on Windows Mobile. They were afraid to release it for fear of hurting their hardware sales.

 

[chucker23n1]

The iPhone was not a decade ahead. There was nothing new in the iPhone. The App Store is what allowed the iPhone to disrupt the market.... cheap/free apps. We can agree to disagree why RIM went the way of dinosaurs. I tested RIM's email client on Windows Mobile. They were afraid to release it for fear of hurting their hardware sales.

None of the cellphones available in January 2007 came close.

 

[convergent]

None of the cellphones available in January 2007 came close.

Yet I used them to do more than the iPhone would do for several years... phone, email, navigation, camera, apps.

 

[chucker23n1]

Yet I used them to do more than the iPhone would do for several years... phone, email, navigation, camera, apps.

If you can't see the leapfrog moment in user experience improvements brought by iOS and Android compared to Windows Mobile 6, classic BlackberryOS, PalmOS 5, etc., I don't even know what to tell you, cause we're on different planets.

 

[convergent]

If you can't see the leapfrog moment in user experience improvements brought by iOS and Android compared to Windows Mobile 6, classic BlackberryOS, PalmOS 5, etc., I don't even know what to tell you, cause we're on different planets.

When the iPhone came out, it wasn't a leapfrog in function. It literally did less things than could be done on other platforms. And at the time I hated using on screen keyboards... kind of still do, but eventually it became the only option. There were certainly parts of the iPhone UI that were better, but if you are already fluent in something else, then giving up function to have a fancier UI is a non starter.

I guess we'll agree to disagree because you've failed to even get a glimmer of the point I was initially trying to make.

 

[Abazigal]

To keep things working smoothly, you fix your app, not shut it down.

Maybe Apple intends to roll it out under a new name, like how they rebranded Beats music to Apple Music?