Looptunes ... done

Telefunky

oops

anickt

@Telefunky said:
oops

Also, congrats to @sonicreef

studs1966

Good for you Pete.... Don’t blame you mate..... You could keep coding the app, & make out that the app has been taken over by a cousin of yours ( in between meals....lol)... Long as Apple sniffer Dogs don’t catch you?..... Just like the big music producers..... Who make a track in a different name....

Turntablist

@anickt said:
Get over it! If that’s the biggest issue in your life (as it seems to be) then consider yourself blessed.

What ?
You have no idea about my issues, and i dont want your blessing either !!

sonicreef

@studs1966 said:
Good for you Pete.... Don’t blame you mate..... You could keep coding the app, & make out that the app has been taken over by a cousin of yours ( in between meals....lol)... Long as Apple sniffer Dogs don’t catch you?..... Just like the big music producers..... Who make a track in a different name....

thing is...I can write music software now as a main job, so I don't really need that outlet at night anymore. This frees up a ton of time to do other cool things, like .....actually making music

gusgranite

@sonicreef said:

@studs1966 said:
Good for you Pete.... Don’t blame you mate..... You could keep coding the app, & make out that the app has been taken over by a cousin of yours ( in between meals....lol)... Long as Apple sniffer Dogs don’t catch you?..... Just like the big music producers..... Who make a track in a different name....

thing is...I can write music software now as a main job, so I don't really need that outlet at night anymore. This frees up a ton of time to do other cool things, like .....actually making music

Congrats! I love to see someone make decisions to move things forward. Make it happen and enjoy it!!

amusing_Grace

@sonicreef said:

@studs1966 said:
Good for you Pete.... Don’t blame you mate..... You could keep coding the app, & make out that the app has been taken over by a cousin of yours ( in between meals....lol)... Long as Apple sniffer Dogs don’t catch you?..... Just like the big music producers..... Who make a track in a different name....

thing is...I can write music software now as a main job, so I don't really need that outlet at night anymore. This frees up a ton of time to do other cool things, like .....actually making music

Congratz on the job!
One question though, will the app only disappear from the store, but still be able to be redownloaded from purchases or are you closing your dev account, too?

Will

@sonicreef said:

@studs1966 said:
Good for you Pete.... Don’t blame you mate..... You could keep coding the app, & make out that the app has been taken over by a cousin of yours ( in between meals....lol)... Long as Apple sniffer Dogs don’t catch you?..... Just like the big music producers..... Who make a track in a different name....

thing is...I can write music software now as a main job, so I don't really need that outlet at night anymore. This frees up a ton of time to do other cool things, like .....actually making music

Boom! Fantastic news. Congrats on the gig and big ups for the announcement. Very thoughtful. Good luck with what's next.

mannix

@sonicreef said:

@studs1966 said:
Good for you Pete.... Don’t blame you mate..... You could keep coding the app, & make out that the app has been taken over by a cousin of yours ( in between meals....lol)... Long as Apple sniffer Dogs don’t catch you?..... Just like the big music producers..... Who make a track in a different name....

thing is...I can write music software now as a main job, so I don't really need that outlet at night anymore. This frees up a ton of time to do other cool things, like .....actually making music

Do your Apps still be available in the purchased apps next year? So if I get a new iPad I can still download them. From earlier remarks in this thread I get the impression your apps will not only disappear from the appstore but also from the purchases list.

greengrocer

@Dubbylabby said:

@greengrocer said:

@rs2000 said:

@greengrocer said:

@sonicreef said:
Hi all,

I am hereby announcing that I'm phasing out Looptunes, and it's flavors LooptunesHD and LooptunesDJ.
Some of you may know that I started a job at Apple in the music apps team earlier this year. I couldn't be happier there, but I'm not allowed to do major updates of looptunes anymore.
It's been a good run, was a ton of fun, but it's time to put it to rest.
I just adjusted all the Looptunes version prices to $0.99, and I'll keep selling it till the end of the year.
After that, I'll take it off the App store, unless someone takes it off my hands and takes it to the next level.

Peter

Thanks for the info and sad to hear.
The only thing I ask myself are you stopping with paying for your dev license over 2 months. What I understood your app will in that case (so after 31 december) also not available anymore for people that purchased the app. So as soon as you switch phones or iPad it is not available anymore. This is very very sad news for the people that purchased it.

You can always back up the .ipa file while available. Search online for how to do it.
The really sad news is that the issues have not been fixed since March and apparently won't ever be.

What I think is totally not understandable for me is how the dev stull dares to ask money for an app that will also disappear even from your putchased app list. Why not make them free for the last two and half months they exist. Curious if Peter also puts this info in the Apple store. I believe a great group of purchasers will be people who think the app is reduced in price. Making de dev extra bucks of fooling people by an app that disappears forever. Trickey business in my eyes.

The Nanostudio dev done the same reducing price and some of us bought it in a breath. With clear comunication there is no harm. My iPhone 4 is a file vault.

Agree, but the dev of nanoStudio did keep his license up. What I understood, without a paid license Apple will drop the app from the purchase list.

RajahP

Well...

[Deleted User]

@greengrocer said:

@Dubbylabby said:

@greengrocer said:

@rs2000 said:

@greengrocer said:

@sonicreef said:
Hi all,

I am hereby announcing that I'm phasing out Looptunes, and it's flavors LooptunesHD and LooptunesDJ.
Some of you may know that I started a job at Apple in the music apps team earlier this year. I couldn't be happier there, but I'm not allowed to do major updates of looptunes anymore.
It's been a good run, was a ton of fun, but it's time to put it to rest.
I just adjusted all the Looptunes version prices to $0.99, and I'll keep selling it till the end of the year.
After that, I'll take it off the App store, unless someone takes it off my hands and takes it to the next level.

Peter

Thanks for the info and sad to hear.
The only thing I ask myself are you stopping with paying for your dev license over 2 months. What I understood your app will in that case (so after 31 december) also not available anymore for people that purchased the app. So as soon as you switch phones or iPad it is not available anymore. This is very very sad news for the people that purchased it.

You can always back up the .ipa file while available. Search online for how to do it.
The really sad news is that the issues have not been fixed since March and apparently won't ever be.

What I think is totally not understandable for me is how the dev stull dares to ask money for an app that will also disappear even from your putchased app list. Why not make them free for the last two and half months they exist. Curious if Peter also puts this info in the Apple store. I believe a great group of purchasers will be people who think the app is reduced in price. Making de dev extra bucks of fooling people by an app that disappears forever. Trickey business in my eyes.

The Nanostudio dev done the same reducing price and some of us bought it in a breath. With clear comunication there is no harm. My iPhone 4 is a file vault.

Agree, but the dev of nanoStudio did keep his license up. What I understood, without a paid license Apple will drop the app from the purchase list.

Well, since Apple drop 32bit app support from the store I have lots of purchased app that I can’t download even the dev keep that license up...
Also other developers made worst practices such discontinnued a pay app pointing you to store it at you deskop via iTunes and replace it with a free but limited version plus a full but subscription one. The problem comes when you have not any desktop to do that and the iPad can’t store these by itself...

So I see your point but in this case notifying is just courtesy. Most developers go directly salomonic and don’t care about user a s##t. Being talked with Looptunes dev one night I can say he’s a humble human kind and acessible person not a greedy and ugly troll so I supose it wasn’t an easy decision for him and he choose the less bad option.

gjcyrus

About once every year I check back in to see if there’s any new iOS apps worth checking out. Was specifically looking for something that exported to ableton and this appeared on my radar. Went to purchase it and was surprised to see it wasn’t available. Found this thread and while I’m happy for designer, this thread is another reminder why I stopped relying on iOS apps as serious tools. Not that there aren’t great brilliant apps but rather long term they’re not reliable. Better to invest your time and energy learning and becoming an expert on a specific desktop platform (Ex. Ableton/Instruments) than some brilliant app that can overnight, suddenly be gone.

sysexual

@sonicreef said:
Hi all,

I am hereby announcing that I'm phasing out Looptunes, and it's flavors LooptunesHD and LooptunesDJ.
Some of you may know that I started a job at Apple in the music apps team earlier this year. I couldn't be happier there, but I'm not allowed to do major updates of looptunes anymore.
It's been a good run, was a ton of fun, but it's time to put it to rest.
I just adjusted all the Looptunes version prices to $0.99, and I'll keep selling it till the end of the year.
After that, I'll take it off the App store, unless someone takes it off my hands and takes it to the next level.

Peter

its kinda weak to continue selling a product you intend to scrap in the near future. just my thought.

robosardine

@sysexual said:

@sonicreef said:
Hi all,

I am hereby announcing that I'm phasing out Looptunes, and it's flavors LooptunesHD and LooptunesDJ.
Some of you may know that I started a job at Apple in the music apps team earlier this year. I couldn't be happier there, but I'm not allowed to do major updates of looptunes anymore.
It's been a good run, was a ton of fun, but it's time to put it to rest.
I just adjusted all the Looptunes version prices to $0.99, and I'll keep selling it till the end of the year.
After that, I'll take it off the App store, unless someone takes it off my hands and takes it to the next level.

Peter

its kinda weak to continue selling a product you intend to scrap in the near future. just my thought.

It is - esp when it was becoming prone to crashing on the most recent operating systems.

Anyway- I would be surprised if nobody were to take it off @sonicreef - it really is a great app- unique in many ways and I don’t imagine it would take much to fix it. I think with a bit of astute marketing it could be a big seller.
It would be a shame if it were never to be seen again.