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Originally Posted by Ken Case
Please understand that we do still support our 1.x customers and will do what we can to make sure their existing investment is preserved.
But please understand that this situation is caused by the current limitations in the App Store, not by some policy decision on our part. Customers who purchased Logic Pro 9 from Apple before the upgrade to Logic Pro X are in the same boat, for example: those who paid $199 two months ago still have to pay $199 again today, and appear to be left without any channel for bug fixes.
For purchases from our own online store, we've always offered upgrade pricing, long-term bug fixes (e.g. providing updates to OmniGraffle 4 long after we shipped OmniGraffle 5), and so on. And we're trying to provide what we can through the App Store as well. (It remains to be seen whether Apple will approve an update to an app we no longer sell—but we do plan to try.)
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Thank you Ken! I finally registered on the forums mainly to raise my concern on your
blog post, where you stated (emphasis mine, both the bold and the italics):
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The old versions of OmniFocus for iPhone, OmniOutliner for iPad, and OmniPlan for iPad will be removed from the App Store. If you’re not planning on updating to iOS 7 or need a version of any of these apps that runs on iOS 6 for any reason, you’ll want to grab them before the new releases ship. However, please note that we don’t plan on doing any more work on these iOS 6 apps: our iPhone and iPad development efforts are now fully focused on iOS 7.
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And then in the PS (again emphasis mine):
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We expect that you should all be able to continue to use our version 1 apps on iOS 7.
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To me that sounded like you wouldn't even
attempt at solving any compatibility problems for version 1, and that is not what I expected of a serious company like the OmniGroup. It made me really consider looking into alternatives - where the risk of purchasing abandonware might be equally high or even higher, but where prices would be low enough for me to accept that risk.
Now what you say here is something totally different, and it is just the thing I needed to hear to again be confident in investing more money in your great products. Thank you!