Omni Group Commits to Bring Five Productivity Apps to iPad
OmniPlan for Mac OS X
In a blog post, Omni Group has committed to bringing five of their productivity apps to the iPad including OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner, OmniPlan, OmniFocus, and OmniGraphSketcher.
Remember how Macintosh was intended to be the computer "for the rest of us"? That's what we feel Apple's iPad is: the best computing device for most of the things people use computers for. (Or, as Apple puts it, "the best way to experience the web, email, and photos.") It's the computer people can sit down and start using immediately, without training, whether they're 2 or 92.
We're really excited about Apple's iPad, and we want to make all of our products available for it as soon as we can.
Omni Group had only previously brought OmniFocus to the iPhone which won a Best of Show Award at Macworld 2008. Obviously, their iPad commitment is far more significant which includes applications which range from project management, diagrams/flowcharts, outlines, and personal task management. Their plans to aggressively move to the iPad will actually delay some future Mac versions of their software.
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27 months ago
It's going to take me quite some time to get over the lack of flash in Safari ( i may be posting my frustration for days if not months :D ) but this is exactly the kind of 3rd party software that I was looking forward to in an iPad.
Go Omni! can't wait for all the other productivity developers to jump on board. Finance apps and more.
Go Omni! can't wait for all the other productivity developers to jump on board. Finance apps and more.
27 months ago
This is really great news. I use several of their applications, and OmniFocus is a tool that I use all the time.
27 months ago
Stuff like this might actually make the iPad more useful. (Then again, I don't use their apps on OS X, either...but still. :))
Hopefully, stuff like this keeps happening. I'm waiting for that killer app that will convince me to buy it.
Hopefully, stuff like this keeps happening. I'm waiting for that killer app that will convince me to buy it.
27 months ago
Pff. Call me when it runs OSX and it no longer matters what companies want to spend their sweet time developing for yet another platform. Until then, I'll be on my laptop.
27 months ago
The availability of OmniOutliner is enough to sway me to get an iPad over an iPod touch (I was having trouble deciding). With desktop class productivity applications appearing for the iPad, it will really be a [semi-crippled] $500 multi-touch mac. :D
27 months ago
This is where it starts getting very interesting. Full featured apps like this are going to be far more possible, and I'd expect Omni Group will do a good job making them multi-touch appropriate.
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27 months ago
Pff. Call me when it runs OSX and it no longer matters what companies want to spend their sweet time developing for yet another platform. Until then, I'll be on my laptop.
Enjoy that laptop (I am using one now) while you can cause they are going to stop making them in 5-10 years. "Touch" the future.
27 months ago
This is exactly the type of attitude that is going to define the iPad experience!! I hole heartedly believe that it's this type of developer enthusiasm that will make the iPad successful. You can already see the clouds of dissent parting as more and more people look look at what they can help the iPad become rather than lament what the iPad is not....yet.
27 months ago
There's going to be a rush of either full fledge 3 third party apps or hybird Apps for this device. Very good news.
Expect for Apple to have 3 different SDK's soon ... iPhone....iPad.....Mac OS X ..... Sadly Apple cares about these OS's in the order I mentioned them :( oh well. :)
Very adroit post arn ;)
Expect for Apple to have 3 different SDK's soon ... iPhone....iPad.....Mac OS X ..... Sadly Apple cares about these OS's in the order I mentioned them :( oh well. :)
Very adroit post arn ;)
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