Panic has announced that it will soon suspend sale of Transmit for iOS, a mobile version of the popular remote file management app.
Transmit iOS made about $35k in revenue in the last year, representing a minuscule fraction of our overall 2017 app revenue. That’s not enough to cover even a half-time developer working on the app. 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. 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. Finally, 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. It all leads to one hecka murky situation.
Panic says it will keep Panic Sync working for Transmit iOS so users can continue using the app until a hopefully far off iOS update breaks it. It's also been updated with iPhone X support so it should work well on all current devices.
There's a chance the app could return as more users take to the iPad Pro as a laptop replacement.
"My optimistic take: we hope that as iOS matures, and more and more pro users begin to seriously consider the iPad as a legitimate part of their daily work routines, Transmit iOS can one day return and triumph like it does on the Mac."
If you want to grab Transmit before it disappears, it's still available at the link below for $9.99.
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Transmit iOS made about $35k in revenue in the last year, representing a minuscule fraction of our overall 2017 app revenue. That’s not enough to cover even a half-time developer working on the app. 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. 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. Finally, 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. It all leads to one hecka murky situation.
Panic says it will keep Panic Sync working for Transmit iOS so users can continue using the app until a hopefully far off iOS update breaks it. It's also been updated with iPhone X support so it should work well on all current devices.
There's a chance the app could return as more users take to the iPad Pro as a laptop replacement.
"My optimistic take: we hope that as iOS matures, and more and more pro users begin to seriously consider the iPad as a legitimate part of their daily work routines, Transmit iOS can one day return and triumph like it does on the Mac."
If you want to grab Transmit before it disappears, it's still available at the link below for $9.99.
Read More Download