It’s a shame that this is the only way out they see, but I don’t blame them for doing it if they feel they have to, especially in these times. But given that their entire product line is aimed at what is at best a niche market - I doubt they intended that, but that’s how it’s turned out - I have a sneaking suspicion that, by this point, they’re getting pretty damn desperate to avoid a situation in which they’ll be forced out of business no matter what they do. There’s no spite or malice coming from Livescribe, at least not where anyone can see it the strong impression I get, given their statement and especially given the times, is that this is what the company is doing because it’s either this, or go out of business entirely - and what good would that do the developer community?Ĭould they have done it more gracefully? Of course they could have. Teabaggs: I realize there are a lot of people who are putting their emotions into this, the same way there were over (for example) TI telling hobbyists they could either quit reversing the units’ encryption keys or get the fuck out entirely. Xorpunk: I think you called it I’ve never even known anyone who knew anyone who had one, and I have been asking because I’m interested in the idea even if it does strike me as probable that “pen computing” will never be anything other than an awful hack with a terrible user interface. Posted in News Tagged developers developers developers, livescribe, smartpen Post navigation If you know where the new forum is, be sure to send it into the tip line.
We’ll be sure to post a link to that forum when we get word of it. Livescribe’s official reason for shutting down the development program is to concentrate on, “cloud access, storage and services.” While we’re still wondering why Livescribe would sideline the developers that give a platform more functionality, it’s astonishing that a company would take down the SDK and delete the dev forums of their own product.Īlthough the largest Livescribe development and hacking forum has been shut down, we fully expect an independent forum to pop up within the week. Livescribe has a thriving community around it and the pens themselves have had some incredible hacks, like Zork played on an Echo smartpen. Sent in a tip saying that Livescribe, the company behind a remarkable smartpen able to record handwriting, was shuttering the developer program by taking down their dev forums and removing the SDK, taking away the ability to write custom apps.
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