From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: August 6, 2012 5:17:23 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] PGR GrassHopper Express 2.8 and Extended Shutter

Dave;

On 6-Aug-12, at 4:55 PM, Dave Goodyear wrote:

Wow..  Sorry about that.. That sux..  Does Winblows kill another software company?

No - Apple is more guilty of this than anyone.

Apple has gone out of their way of making Mac software that much more difficult to build or support going forward. Their restriction with the Apple Store and Sand Boxing, lack of admitting their are any Apps outside the store to kill off sales of any products (aka Gate Keeper), and continually destroying previous APIs and replacing them with more restrictive crap that meets no ones needs except Apples is also a huge issue. And USB 3 is a pipe dream - maybe in 2 years Apple will get around to documenting it - maybe never if you call 1 or 2 line in a header "documentation" which is all we get as developers. I expect the next release of OSX will kill off all non Apple Store software going forward.

And the depression (who are we kidding here with semantics on "recession") has meant sales from Europe and Japan are gone and the USA is way down too. In Canada we sell nothing and never have.

I Have found many Mac users complaining about the cost of Astro IIDC too - so I assume that many are now using whatever Free Windows software that companies supply for their camera in a Windows Virtual Box. Can't compete with free - and if you don't see the Quality of Astro IIDC now - you never will going forward.  People can spend $3K on a new Mac, and then whine when they can't transfer the license to Astro IIDC - even though I have been delivering 15+ FREE major upgrades to it over the past 4 years.

And lastly, it's within Mac users power to save Astro IIDC - by voting with your wallets. If you don't - well then it didn't matter in the first place.

PS:

You should all be really worried about any package that uses Nokia's QT multi platform porting package (two popular ones come to mind), as Apples phone sales have severely crippled Nokia. Nokia may shut QT down as a cost saving measure and that means any major change by Apple will go unfixed going forward.

Milton Aupperle