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Originally Posted by kened
There are features that users of the desktop application have been waiting for, and promised, for years but some of you seem to think it should be dropped, because apple brings out a shiny new executive toy.
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Really? What features have been promised? Plenty of "we'd like to" but they seem to avoid making promises.
I'm not sure why you think Omni has an obligation to ship OO4 first, just because OO predates the iPad. This is a business. If business considerations mean that OO for iPad should ship first, that's what they should do. Likewise, if business considerations mean that OO4 should ship first, that's what they should do. Who has been waiting longer should only be a factor insofar as it affects the business case.
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of course an iPad version is desirable for its users, but why the hell should it be at the expense of the desktop version.
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Because they have more things they want to do than resources with which to do them, they have to make hard choices about what to do, and when. No matter what they choose, there will always be unhappy customers who think they are getting the short end of the stick. Those of us who want
both OO for iPad and OO4, for example, seem likely to encounter some frustration as scheduling tradeoffs are made.