Tragic Mistakes
This post title could relate to the illustrating picture, but that's not my intention.
What inspires that post is the current situation at Bibble Labs. They develop and a remarkable raw converter called Bibble. I am not sure if they still sell anything, because they have publicly announced they have stopped supporting, correcting and enhancing their current product because the new one should be available soon. That includes not adding support for new cameras. Since I have no plan of buying any new digital camera I should not care too much.
But I do. Because the next version, that was supposed to be here real soon is not going to be. In fact, that development appears to be so mismanaged that it raises questions on the company viability. And I am not going to spend time in Bibble if that product is a dead end. Any operating system update could make stop working.
It Bibble 5 gets released before the company melts down and if it is a quality product, it will probably be the best raw converter on the planet. But at this stage, I am doubtful it will be released before having been rendered irrelevant by the competition.
Let's hope I am dead wrong.
Stephane :: Mar.30.2009 :: Pictures, Software :: No Comments »
