I thought that was more for the full proper release of iWork in the cloud, not an actual new iWork ?
They also said new releases for OS X and iOS
I thought that was more for the full proper release of iWork in the cloud, not an actual new iWork ?
When companies drop software like this they destroy user access to their own user data. It should be illegal for a large company to do this and keep existing. Even in bankruptcy should not allow this. Continued support for the product is a liability that the company should be required to keep up with just like warranties and tax debt. If the company goes out of business then money from the sale of the company assets should be set aside to continue maintenance and the software/hardware should go into the public domain. The same holds for operating systems. Apple should not have been allowed to abandon MacOS Classic, PPC support, 68K support, etc. They can easily emulate all that - as they have proven - and they are so huge they should maintain those so that users can continue to access their data. Life lasts more than just five years. We need a Data Life Guarantee Law since companies are not willing to do this themselves.
It is a criminal travesty that I cannot find the proper ribbon for my smith corona in this day and age. Someone should sue.
Life lasts more than just five years. We need a Data Life Guarantee Law since companies are not willing to do this themselves.
When companies drop software like this they destroy user access to their own user data. It should be illegal for a large company to do this and keep existing. Even in bankruptcy should not allow this. Continued support for the product is a liability that the company should be required to keep up with just like warranties and tax debt. If the company goes out of business then money from the sale of the company assets should be set aside to continue maintenance and the software/hardware should go into the public domain. The same holds for operating systems. Apple should not have been allowed to abandon MacOS Classic, PPC support, 68K support, etc. They can easily emulate all that - as they have proven - and they are so huge they should maintain those so that users can continue to access their data. Life lasts more than just five years. We need a Data Life Guarantee Law since companies are not willing to do this themselves.
Sad news... Bento was great, but the difference in cost to jump upto FileMaker is just not worth the difference for those users who were fine with Bento's feature set - which now leaves them somewhat in a limbo.
If Apple had any gumption they would have taken Bento out of the FileMaker portfolio and actually 'added' it to its iWork suite of apps as the missing database application....
When companies drop software like this they destroy user access to their own user data. It should be illegal for a large company to do this and keep existing. Even in bankruptcy should not allow this. Continued support for the product is a liability that the company should be required to keep up with just like warranties and tax debt. If the company goes out of business then money from the sale of the company assets should be set aside to continue maintenance and the software/hardware should go into the public domain. The same holds for operating systems. Apple should not have been allowed to abandon MacOS Classic, PPC support, 68K support, etc. They can easily emulate all that - as they have proven - and they are so huge they should maintain those so that users can continue to access their data. Life lasts more than just five years. We need a Data Life Guarantee Law since companies are not willing to do this themselves.
When companies drop software like this they destroy user access to their own user data. It should be illegal for a large company to do this and keep existing. Even in bankruptcy should not allow this. Continued support for the product is a liability that the company should be required to keep up with just like warranties and tax debt. If the company goes out of business then money from the sale of the company assets should be set aside to continue maintenance and the software/hardware should go into the public domain. The same holds for operating systems. Apple should not have been allowed to abandon MacOS Classic, PPC support, 68K support, etc. They can easily emulate all that - as they have proven - and they are so huge they should maintain those so that users can continue to access their data. Life lasts more than just five years. We need a Data Life Guarantee Law since companies are not willing to do this themselves.
When companies drop software like this they destroy user access to their own user data. It should be illegal for a large company to do this and keep existing. Even in bankruptcy should not allow this. Continued support for the product is a liability that the company should be required to keep up with just like warranties and tax debt. If the company goes out of business then money from the sale of the company assets should be set aside to continue maintenance and the software/hardware should go into the public domain. The same holds for operating systems. Apple should not have been allowed to abandon MacOS Classic, PPC support, 68K support, etc. They can easily emulate all that - as they have proven - and they are so huge they should maintain those so that users can continue to access their data. Life lasts more than just five years. We need a Data Life Guarantee Law since companies are not willing to do this themselves.
Although I really had no use for Bento, I hope each employee is able to find a new job somewhere else.
Only time will tell,since I switched to macs in 2007 time and time again over the last few years apple have fallen short and thrown the baby out with the bath water. I've hoped apple would accommodate the small business user since . Mac and migrated to Mobile me they got rid of .Mac groups which I used a lot, then they did away with iWeb and Moileme and hosting making me have to use another web designer again and web hosting site. Now my beloved data base program is under attack. I'm seriously thinking about switching to Windows. Apple love to cut things and leave people high and dry with no options. Being self employed Apple was a god send but over the last few years. Things have got difficult to cope with. With all these changes.
If you have this concern, you address it. Don't make me and everyone else pay a little more just to alleviate your fears. We have enough government and regulation, thank you.
Bento as I'm aware is quite well used. Perhaps just my circle of friends.
Some have Filemaker, but that's only if they have larger businesses.
Another death in Apple's ecosystem. Pro's moving to Windows in their droves. Video editors already dumping their Mac Pro machines for Windows workstations leaving FCP for Premier, audio going the same direction with lack of newer Mac Pro machines, photography just hanging on but lack of CUDA support with Apple only offering AMD may kill them off.
Never looks right when you walk in to a creative business, you see lots of Apple desktops then you look at the admin department and they're all on crappy looking Dell desktops.
As people said, it would make sense for Apple to purchase it and re-release it as part of a new iWork suite.
yet another example of Apple ignoring it's user base.
Filemaker inc actually. Filemaker is run by it's own staff and they make their own decisions about products. The decision to discontinue Bento was a decision by Filemaker's management.
your telling me a wholly owned subsidiary of Apple makes it's own 'strategic' decisions..... wow your nieve.....
This 1000000 times.
Also, bump up the feature set and bring back the tight OS integration (calendar, contacts, iPhoto) which they plan to phase out and have partly done already. Super stupid decision if you ask me by the way.
Also, I'm SURE AS HELL not going to upgrade to FileMaker now that they apparently couldn't even hold the by-product around and lay off 200 employees.
Sorry, but that is all but trustworthy in my books for an application that's supposed to store hundreds or thousands of database entries.
And I sure can think about more fun things than migrating databases, checking their integrity, losing uptime, losing features, trained workflows and all that.
Bento has been solid for big databases that even need contacts that link to your already existing OS X/iOS Address Book, which made this product a go-to solution even for small businesses and now they essentially drop those features in a product they don't even want to maintain anymore.
(Anyone telling me they still support it isn't thinking about what I'm thinking... Software that isn't sold anymore doesn't get NEAR the quality of support as software that's in active development)
Oh well, to cut a long story short, bye bye FileMaker for now.
That's gonna take some time to gain back that trust you just lost. Funny thing is I was even considering moving to FileMaker in the near future, but not anymore.
Glassed Silver:mac
When companies drop software like this they destroy user access to their own user data. It should be illegal for a large company to do this and keep existing. Even in bankruptcy should not allow this. Continued support for the product is a liability that the company should be required to keep up with just like warranties and tax debt. If the company goes out of business then money from the sale of the company assets should be set aside to continue maintenance and the software/hardware should go into the public domain. The same holds for operating systems. Apple should not have been allowed to abandon MacOS Classic, PPC support, 68K support, etc. They can easily emulate all that - as they have proven - and they are so huge they should maintain those so that users can continue to access their data. Life lasts more than just five years. We need a Data Life Guarantee Law since companies are not willing to do this themselves.