![]() Everyone that has Transmit iOS installed can use it on their devices in the foreseeable future. Plus, it should be easily re-downloadable from your App Store “Purchased” zone - at least until a hopefully-far-future iOS update breaks compatibility with it.It does a lot of useful things, even if it won’t be updated in the foreseeable future. We will soon remove Transmit iOS from sale. This is your last chance to purchase it - if you think it’ll be useful for you.Panic says everyone that already has the app installed can continue to use it for “foreseeable future.” And they hope that “as iOS matures” there might someday be enough interest for the app to make a comeback. It all leads to one hecka murky situation. The company also said the iOS 10 Files app “overlaps” much of Transmit’s file management functionality.įinally, the new Files app in iOS 10 overlaps a lot of file-management functionality Transmit provides, and feels like a more natural place for that functionality. Also, paid upgrades are still a matter of great debate and discomfort in the iOS universe, so the normally logical idea of a paid “Transmit 2 for iOS” would be unlikely to help. And the app needs full-time work - we’d love to be adding all of the new protocols we added in Transmit 5, as well as some dream features, but the low revenue would render that effort a guaranteed money-loser. That’s not enough to cover even a half-time developer working on the app. Transmit iOS made about $35k in revenue in the last year, representing a minuscule fraction of our overall 2017 app revenue. The company announced in a blog that it is “suspending sale of the file manager for FTP/SFTP/Amazon S3 servers “very soon.” While the company says the app was “much-loved” by those that used it, there just weren’t enough users to keep maintaining the app. We really hope to bring it back someday in some form.This also does not affect Coda iOS and Prompt iOS, both of which are still going strong.This does not affect Transmit 5 for Mac. It’s doing extremely well.Revenue was not enough to cover development - we won’t sell something we can’t actively develop.We are suspending the sale of Transmit iOS very soon.The company says that revenue from the app isn’t enough to finance its development. Coda 2.5 Not Sandboxable, Leaves Mac App StoreĪpp Review Coda History Mac Mac App Store Mac OS X 10.Developer Panic has announced it will soon remove its Transmit file manager app for iOS from the App Store.Apple Support Tells Customers to Ask Developer for Refund.Most of the other points are also still valid today, although Apple did add a limited way to reply to customer reviews, and subscriptions make it possible-albeit curiously difficult-to implement trials without having to keep purchasing “‘fuel’ to keep the Transmit truck rolling.” His first point about App Store–induced stress reminds me of what Rich Siegel has spoken about, and that situation hasn’t changed. In any event, what a good communicator Cabel Sasser is. ![]() Some of these sentences seem very familiar, so I wonder if this e-mail has been published before, though I can’t seem to find the link. ![]() Panic’s shares App Store thoughts with Phil Schiller ![]()
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