I just received a notice from Koingo Software (MacCleanse, MacPilot, AirRadar, etc.) was changing hands, transitioning to a "subscription based" marketing plan, and spinning off its lesser products to a "new developer", and perhaps equally interesting dropping all support for any version of OS X prior to 10.7 (Lion). Some around here have bewailed Apple's policy of planned hardware and software obsolescence but this could be a signal from the rest of the software world that infinite support of out of date product versions is an unsupportable financial model. As for the subscription sales model I am not so sanguine. Unlike Adobe, Koingo is still offering a "Lifetime Purchase" agreement, but only time will tell if that will remain viable. Companies must have cash-flow and given the computer market has gone flat if not decaying they are going to have to find a way to maintain the cash-flow. The times they are a changin'.
