Michael on June 15th, 2011

On the day the first iPad came out, I released the first version of Ghostwriter Notes — A handwritten notes taking application — and it didn’t take long for me to realize I had made some blunders. The dynamic of the AppStore isn’t like most web stores where software companies sell their product. This a [...]

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Michael on February 5th, 2011

When software started being sold to the masses, what you bought was what you got. Once the install program had finally scanned through a the couple dozen floppy disks that came in the box, there it was: your newly purchased software running on your PC. From that moment on, your acquisition was to remain stale [...]

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Michael on September 24th, 2010

A few months ago I published an iPad app to the AppStore called Ghostwriter Notes. It’s an app where you use your iPad like a regular notepad and write with your finger or a stylus. It’s been doing really well but recently it got plagued by a mysterious page disappearance problem. For any app, regardless [...]

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