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Casady & Greene Says "Goodnight"

Posted by pudge on from the back-in-my-day-we-had-third-party-software-and-we-liked-it dept.

powderhound writes "Longtime Mac software publisher Casady & Greene have said their final 'Goodnight.' The publisher of many notable Mac titles such as SpellCatcher, InfoGenie, iData, and Glider Pro, have decided to close the doors on July 3rd. Their web site contains the details of their decision. They will be sorely missed."

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  1. Re:R�ves doux. by Elderly+Isaac · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They must have gotten a pretty penny for SoundJam. C&G had to realize that, with OS X making Conflict Catcher obsolete, SoundJam was their future. Or did they really expect Glider Pro carbon to sell like hotcakes?

    I've been scratching my head about C&G's business strategy and expecting this day ever since OS X was announced.

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  2. Why? Because of OSX by ihatewinXP · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Honestly before I saw this article I had not thought about them in years. Aside from the story of SoundJam C&G (which was really OS9) C&G have been absolutely quiet on the OSX front since its release.

    OSX killed Extension Manager by way of UNIX, SoundJam by way of buyout, and Spellchecker with built in Cocoa services. All three, but _especially_ extension manager, were near necessities when we were dealing with an extension plauged, mp3 starved, clusterfuck of a system.

    So to answer your question: a resounding "yes." OSX killed Cassidy & Greene along with C&G's innability to innovate and capitalize on a system change that they saw coming _years_ in advance (remember Rhapsody? they do).

    Their Extension Manager was priceless in my converting to MacOS from Windows, and it is still one of the few applications I have ever paid for.

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  3. Re:R�ves doux. by Huge+Pi+Removal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They seemed to put a lot of effort into iData, which was probably pretty damn innovative, but no-one seemed to want. Shame. It will soon, however, be offered for free.

    They had a raft of OS X utils, but not necessarily ones you'd pay for (e.g. Clone'X: there's freeware/shell commands that do the same thing). I think more importantly, they were a very "morally sound" company, almost to the extent of being complete hippies... but damn cool coding hippies :) Their attitude will probably be missed more than their final software offerings.

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