On Monday, June 9, 2003, at 12:19 AM, Philip M. Aker wrote:
On Sunday, Jun 8, 2003, at 10:35 America/Vancouver, David H. Bailey wrote:
Well, after what happened (or didn't happen) with the PowerPC, they may have decided to wait and be sure that whatever new path Apple was going to take was really going to stick, and work, and be accepted.
Nah, not really David. Apple itself dropped support for OS 9 over a year ago and had indicated long before that there was no future for > it.
Again, I'm not breaking any confidences (I hope) here by mentioning that back when Fin2003 was released, I email Coda's MacSupport urging them to release announce that a Carbonized version would be available for download to registered Fin2003 as soon as it was available -- that asking Mac OS X users to wait another full upgrade cycle would loose them a *ton* of customers, especially in the education market. They replied that even if they had wanted to adopt this policy, there would be no way that a Mac OS version would be ready before June-July 2003 at the earliest -- in fact, that if anything, FinMac2004 would likely be a little behind schedule because there was so much work yet to be done on the OS X port. This suggests to me that Coda didn't start development on an OS X version of Finale until it became achingly obvious that they would lose *all* of their Mac customers if they didn't start getting their act together.
Keep in mind that Mac OS X 10.0 was released in March 2001, and that Carbon was introduced with Mac OS 8.6 (released 1998, I believe). In fact, from the day Steve Jobs deposed Gil Amelio and proclaimed himself "iCEO" of Apple (remember, that "i" was originally for "interim" -- yeah, right), it was instantly obvious to anyone paying attention that the "classic" MacOS was as good as dead, and whatever took its place -- most likely some version of NeXTstep -- would be the future of Apple. So developers -- including Coda -- had plenty of advance notice that they had better get going on a Carbonized version of their product, or be left in the dust.
Right now, it's a dead heat between Coda and Quark for the ignominious title of "software developer with its head deepest in the sand." Both of these companies have been bleeding users like mad to inferior competitors, purely because of their inability to release an OS X version in a timely manner. But I figure in the end, it will be Coda by a nose. All I can hope for at this point is that FinMac 2004 will be solid, stable, and fast. Sibelius 2.1 is none of these things -- but it *is* OS X native, and that alone has been enough to seriously hurt Coda's market share.
- Darcy
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