For the past several years one of the vital strangest and best platforms with an app store all its own was the Livescribe series of smart-pens. Now, it’s just another ditch to be dug within the development graveyard. After three years will probably be closing up its SDK shop on July 22nd, and not more submissions too its app market shall be accepted. The shop will remain open at the moment, however the company won’t guarantee compatibility with future models or firmware updates. Instead it could shift focus to cloud services like Livescribe Connect . But, do not get too worried, we’re sure the healthy hacker community will keep you knee deep in text adventure ports .
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