こんなことになるとは思っていなかった。3 週間で 13,000 本以上売れ、毎日のように App Store で一段ずつ上っている。アプリを売ることで製品は現実味を帯び、今後の開発も確かなものになるが、いちばん大きな個人的な喜びは、プロのライターから寄せられるフィードバックだ。

10 年以上デジタル製品を作ってきたが、ここまで熱烈な反応を見たことはない。以下のメールは、ニューヨーク・タイムズのベストセラー回想録『Running with Scissors』の著者 Augusten Burroughs から届いたものだ。あまりに美しく書かれているので、全文を引用したい（強調は私による）:

Hi, I’m an American author and I have been wondering—truly—if I might be losing my mind. Because I buy laptops as if they were wrapped candies; so far this year I’ve purchased around a dozen of them; I’ve tried and used numerous operating systems. All because I haven’t been comfortable writing. And yes, I have tried every “distraction free” writing application I have found. But they have seemed to me more of a gimmick; a way to waste yet more time. I use mainly Linux and though I once used Mac I don’t now. Except I bought an iPad the other day because I had to take a flight and it was on one of those awful small planes with no overhead storage. So I bought the iPad knowing I would loathe it and find it useless but I could give it to a friend when I was done with the trip.
I downloaded your program and I wouldn’t have even tried it except that as i was sitting there on the runway waiting for the plane to actually move, something came to mind and I needed to write it down.
I launched your program and wrote my one-line note.
That was two days ago. I’m well into the book I was supposed to be writing but have not been writing. Your program is the single most useful and remarkably clever—invisibly so—device for writing that I can name. Only at first glance does it appear to be an ordinary text editor. Once in use, I discovered that while it has only a tiny number of features, each is just the one you want. And somehow, this application turns this flat thing on the lap into the most efficient tool for writing that I know of. I guess I paid a dollar for it, maybe two or maybe it was $10; I don’t remember. But I will tell you this: Knowing what I know now, I would buy an iPad if the only application on it was yours.
You have created a truly beautiful and insightful and respectful and elegant application. It is tiny but it is huge.
Thank you.

Augusten Burroughs,
New York

これは鳥肌ものだった。Writer のビジョンはまさにこれだ。書き手にふさわしいもの、つまりデジタル端末上で味わう「テキストの歓び」を与えること。

まだやることは山ほどあるが、道筋は間違っていないようだ。iOS 4 への準備、いくつかの小さなバグ修正、自動同期とフォルダ対応を進めつつ、デスクトップ版にも取り組んでいる。まもなく登場する Mac OS X 版 Writer では、iPad で最初の下書きを作ったときと同じ喜びで文章を書けるようになる。Writer for iPad and iPhone は App Store で入手できる。