Elegantly ignored a valid question!!

Good afternoon Gavriel,

I'm glad you brought it up. :-)

That message was written back in 2009, I think just prior to our iPhone release.  I certainly didn't mean to be rude. At that time, we were working pretty much 100 percent on the iPhone release. That was our priority, and I was trying to be clear that iPhone was what we were working on in many different posts there and around the site. Please keep in mind that we are a TWO person company. Getting the iPhone version out WAS our development plan. We followed through on the plan. Iphone version of Life Balance is out there, and has had about nine solid updates since then. Ta-dah!  

The point I was trying to make then was that releases have been pretty regular and timely, many important features and functions people have asked about have been implemented. Pricing also has been pretty reasonable for updates. Most of that information is always available through the release history link.

http://www.llamagraphics.com/products/life-balance/release-notes

I understand that many people have particular things they would like us to do. I did not intend to be dismissive of any particular person's suggestions, many have been mentioned before, and will likely come up again. We are aware that there are many things we can do better. 

Sometimes folks may have preconceived notions about what our development plan ought to look like. We do not use a grand master list where it is all plotted out for the foreseeable future and we can say with certainty that Feature #3000 will be implemented by January 23, 2030. With just the two of us, that is not how we go about it. We do have development plans, but they are more flexible than that, and definitely subject to change, based on input from customers, various challenges, mistakes and even insights we might have along the way.

As for our current development plans. We are in a similar situation, now, so I want to be clear again that these are the main areas we are working on right now:

1) We took some time to shift to a new server because our old server was causing some major problems with the website - that is now nearly done. Probably finish that up in this coming week. 

2) Recently removed Palm OS conduit code that was holding back the desktops. <-- This is now done, so that once the iPad version is out, we will be in a better position to do some desktop updates, but what exactly we'll do next with it is not carved in stone, so suggestions will be looked at carefully as we get closer to that and delve more deeply into it.

3) Finishing up the iPad native version <-- note that this is the main emphasis of the development plan right now. A lot is already working now... there is still more to be done. We are looking forward to getting into the polishing phase soon, which will need to be done with some input from thoughtful beta tester feedback, too.

Anyway, I hope that is helpful and clear, and that you can appreciate better how that old message fits into the conversation for that moment in time.

Best wishes for a Happy and Bright New Year for everyone in 2011! 

--Catherine--*