I think the answer could be very easy...I guess I'm missing something as I tend to think it strange that a developer takes a project to a mature stage such that a few improvements here and there could maintain its value and position in the market, but instead decides not to. Perhaps the codebase becomes messy enough that substantial rewrites are necessary... I don't know, I'm not a programmer. Rapid is still great though... but I don't use it incase for some reason a Mac OS update makes it no longer usable.
I nowadays crowded market it´s quite hard to reach an efficient income from a single product to justify any time for further developing or can can even force the developer to take another full time job to earn some money...
Both will lead to just doing the absolute necessary to not let the project completely die ... what we see over the last 4 years...
The shady thing about it is just to pretend that everything is going on as normal and to conceal the fact that nothing big is actually happening anymore...
The risky thing with Rapid is that any time he can pull the plug disable his site and therefore any registration options and simply disappear what makes Rapid useless from the moment you would have to authorise it again (new machine/installation etc...)
I don´t consider him to be fair enough to provide a new version before which wouldn´t need the C/R protection...
Statistics: Posted by Trancit — Mon Oct 28, 2024 5:44 am