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Friday, April 03, 2009

Typestyler - STILL the Greatest Vaporware program for the Mac…

Seriously, this has gone on FAR too long…

Back last year, after waiting since the inception of OS X for a version of Typestyler that would run natively, I wrote a article calling it out as the “oldest vaporware in the Mac world” and how misleading their ad on MacSurfer was. “Works great in Classic. Native version on the way”...yeah, Don’t hold your breath.

“Works great in Classic” - Um, what’s Classic?
It seems their people have enough time to read my post and respond with reasons why, but not enough time to actually write the software or change the ad to address the issue with a timetable. We’re now nearly 3 years since the eviction of Classic from the modern Intel-based Mac and a fully-working TypeStylerX is STILL no where to be seen. While I gave them some benefit of the doubt, my doubts are more concrete now. This is ridiculous - It’s as if Duke Nukem is doing the coding! (nerd joke - sorry).

Now - don’t get me wrong. You can’t make it, for one reason or another, that’s your choice and I’m good with that. I’m not a fan who’s going to howl if the application won’t appear magically before me. If you threw in the towel, good for you - go sit on a beach. Have a refreshing beverage. Fine - just stop advertising and acting as if it’s coming!

Enough already!
Seriously, this advertising has got to stop. It’s now bait and switch, nothing more. No updates, no newer posts aside from the original claim that “the current TypeStyler 3.7.2 (one known issue) runs fine under the Classic environment of OS X of all past and currently shipping PowerPC Macs”. It’s the same page from last year and the year before.

I’m tempted to go and buy the application in the states where the programmer and MacSurfer live, just so I can have the State Attorneys General go after them for mail fraud. Because that’s what it appears to be now - there’s no OS X product, no timetable, and a constant advert at the top of MacSurfer for a vaporware version that just never seems to appear.

People moan about how some Mac software packages may appear shady - by comparison, this is an eclipse. I know people who have bought this, lumbered through in Classic to get it to work and expected support and now pretty much know they’ll never, ever see a native version. Many have had to upgrade and have left it behind, and good riddance, but seriously - this has got to stop.