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In article <a1ed16f9.0504141828.324de6a8@posting.google.com>,
 froetho@charlie.iit.edu (Thorrsten Froehlich) wrote:

> If I had to bet US$1000 on Metrowerks (or Freescale or whoever owns
> you right now) dropping the Mac tools from one day to the next within
> the next two years versus Metrowerks continuing development of them, I
> would bet on the former. A good way to treat customers, really.  Just
> silently drop products from one day to the next, that certainly makes
> everybody confident in your company!

I don't think that it is as much a case of MW not caring about customer 
as one of business people making a series of short-sighted decisions 
based on perceived profitability of elements of the whole CW package.
"Too much effort in Java for too little profit", so Java is chopped off.  
"Not making a dent in the Windows market" and now the Windows tools are 
gone.  Metrowerks cut off a "useless" arm and a "useless" leg and now 
they have nowehere to go and only a working hand left with wich to slash 
their throat when the game is over, in a year or two at the most (I 
agree with you on time estimate).  It's really sad.

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