Nema više Now Software, zatvorili firmu:

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/03/22/now-software-suspends-day-to-day-operations/

Hajde da vidimo ko od starih Macovaca nije koristio barem Super Boomerang (preteču Default Foldera); ako već nije njihove contact manager softvere?

Intervju sa Džonom sa prošlogodišnjeg MacWorlda.

http://blip.tv/play/gpsB5sdHAg%2Em4v

Što su prestali sa radom?

Ima li veze sa nedostatkom kadra?

Update: Several readers have noted that BusyMac, the company that develops and sells BusyCal and BusySync, was founded in 2007 by Dave Riggle and John Chaffee. The two developers were among the brains behind Now Up-To-Date, and left about the time NightHawk was just starting development.

Ma pukli skroz, kakav nedostatak kadra. B)

Pukli jer nikako da izbace novi proizvod?
Nije mi jasno ako neka firma iza određen broj zaposlenih, šta rade godinu dana ako ne mogu da izbace gotov proizvod. Kažem godinu dana jer je toliko prošlo od MacWorlda 2009 i najave javne bete.

Jesu imali na sajtu uopšte dostupnu betu tada kad su rekli?

Sa http://db.tidbits.com/article/11101:

Now Up-to-Date & Contact was based on an extremely old code base,
and the Now Software developers knew they had to rewrite it entirely
to move beyond the basic Mac OS X compatibility they were able to
achieve with the original code. But calendaring software is
devilishly difficult to do well, especially when it’s designed to
offer sharing among members of widely dispersed workgroups, and Now
X needed to shoehorn both calendaring and contact management in a
single program.

That task took years longer than anticipated, leading to a situation
where Now Software wasn’t earning much from the elderly Now
Up-to-Date & Contact, but still needing significant resources to
devote to Now X development. Although Now X officially shipped in
August 2009, it had numerous rough edges and many Now Up-to-Date &
Contact users had already switched to other programs. Apparently,
sales of Now X weren’t sufficient to bring the company back from the
brink.

Šteta. Ali, biznis je takav.

Eh, kakav povratak u istoriju, dobih nedavno ovaj mail, screenshot je u prilogu, otvorim ovu temu, kad ni http://www.tuaw.com više ne postoji.

I onda razmislim, kada smo pravili macserbia.org i pravili forum, još nije bilo Intel Macova, ja sam tada poruke slao sa Powerbook G4 Titaniuma, a ovu kucam na Macbook Pro sa M2 procesorom. 😊

13 i po godina :D