One of the first applications I purchased for OS X years ago is reaching “the end of the road”:http://www.karelia.com/watson/watsonFAQ.html
bq. Karelia is planning on having Watson reach its “end of life” on October 5, 2004. After this end-of-life date, Karelia will not be able to fully support and maintain Watson. (Between now and then, Watson will continue to be fully supported.) Hopefully, by that timeframe, the company will have announced a new product that Watson users should be able to migrate to.
I still use Watson quite a bit and while I completely understand Karelia’s reasons for doing what they’re doing, I’m personally disappointed. More disappointed in losing Watson than when Thoth’s support disappeared a few months ago. I can continue to use Thoth to check newsgroups, since usenet probably won’t change much and I have no immediate plans to upgrade the OS (more on that in another entry). But as Karelia points out, the websites Watson works with change frequently so it’s likely that once a module doesn’t work after October it never will with no one minding the store to update things.
But I’m trying to think positively that my Mac’s loss may work out to be my PC’s gain if the new cross-platform product is half as good as Watson is in its current form. We’ll have to wait and see.
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