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It’s been some time since I wrote some unimportant sentences in here. Well, having finished another round with WorldView (I just sent 2 releases to Apple), I thought I should start doing something completely different. I should do a lot of more important things like Creating new demo videos for WorldView, updating the website with content and better design, but I don’t want to!

I got one week left before I will be abroad again for a week, and honestly: WorldView has to take a break now!

I did spend so much time working on WorldView the last months, weekends, sometimes even in the evenings after a long day at work. The success with the first release was tremendous: Number 1 in the download charts in Germany and Switzerland, Top 10 in lots of other countries. That gave a lot back.

The downsides also came, sometimes it is very hard to cope with unfair comments in iTunes, with postings about problems that e.g. the app is not working. That is already hard to get used to, even I should be used to it, since I did run (with a few friends) the biggest OS/2 website OS2.org for some years and make it grow. But the biggest point that made me sometimes pretty angry is, when people don’t come back to me with their issues so I can help. I have no way of contacting these people writing such things in iTunes myself. That hurts, since I do care.

So putting so much passion into such a project always has two sides. Both sides can help to grow personally. To learn. But now it is time to move on. WorldView will still grow, and I have lots of features planned, but I hopefully will not spend that much time on it any more, even with the non free version hopefully being out next week. I did put down my OS2.org hobby because it was consuming too much time (being one reason) and other things in life suffered, I don’t want this to happen with WorldView too.

There are some really nice people that helped me keep up with working on WorldView and I got to know many new people. Sandra, my girl-friend, surely to name first, but also thanks to Alex, Kai, Rees, Hervé Ingo, Josef, Hagen, Karim and Gavin for testing over and over and providing so much input! You all made me keep up! Let’s turn into the next, more calm phase now.

So doing something completely different now: putting WorldView aside!