From: Bill Pearce <bill@neoimagers.com>

Date: August 6, 2012 6:54:43 PM MDT

To: "Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com" <Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com>

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


Good point. I guess  Apple is taking lessons from Wally World.  I run Win 7 in a VM, but that's because I'm not paying Adobe a ridiculous fee for the creative suite upgrade just to run it under Mac OS. Sometimes, I need Registax though (for other than DMK 31 imaging). The supplied software from Imaging Source doesn't hold a candle to Astro IIDC. Looks like I will not be upgrading to the next OS from Apple after this latest one. 


We ALL appreciate your diligence, and dedication. You've made life a lot easier for quite a few of us!


Bill


Sent from my iPad


On Aug 6, 2012, at 18:17, Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com> wrote:


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





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