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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. Sad to see them go by Nick+of+NSTime · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I lament the passing of the old-guard Mac publishers. Some are reborn, some fade away forever, and some are eulogized.

    I think as Mac OS X becomes more ubiquitous, we'll witness a renaissance of Mac development and publishing. It's already showing with products like Transmit and Hydra (to name just a couple).

  2. why? by trillian42 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm pretty new to the Mac world -- an OS X convert... so I've never heard of these guys. But it sounds like the timing might have followed that of the introduction of the new OS. Was their inability to keep going due to something about OS X?

    I love this operating system, but I sometimes wonder how much all the goodies that come with it (X11, iTunes, iPhoto, iChat, Safari, Mail.app, Address Book.app, and iCal are all in my Dock) are hurting independent developers who innovated for the platform before Apple got around to incorporating those functions into the OS.

  3. dealings with C&G by presearch · · Score: 5, Interesting

    We contacted them when we were looking for a publisher.
    They wanted 85%, wanted to delay payments to us for up to 180 days,
    if they wanted new "features" either we had to implement them or
    they would pay to have it done and -we- would have the cost deducted
    from royalties. We said no thanks.

    When talking to them, the SoundJam/iTunes thing happened a few months earlier
    and I asked the guy about it. He said that Apple approached them,
    with a fixed price. They advised them to take it, or get buried by an Apple product.
    He wouldn't say how much they got, but it wasn't a huge number, plus they had
    to relinquish the programmers as part of the deal. I like Apple, and I like iTunes
    and what it's become, but Apple sort of rolled over them and they never recovered.