At 07:55 PM 06/24/2004, Darcy James Argue wrote: > But if you want to jump >ship, Sibelius awaits.
I *don't* want to jump ship; that's the problem. Finale fits the way I work much better than Sibelius does. (Though frankly, if Sibelius offered Speedy Entry and Scroll View, at this point I would probably switch.)
> If we want to see Finale survive, however, >we're going to have to accept that Coda doesn't have unlimited time and >resources to spend fixing Finale 2004.
The reason I have a hard time swallowing that is that we're not talking about just fixing 2004 -- we're talking about bugs that have gone unfixed for *years*. If 2003 had been perfect, I would have forgiven the flaws in 2004. But as things are, we *keep* throwing good money after bad. Yes, there are new features each year, and some of them are quite useful, but to me it doesn't quite compensate for the things that remain broken.
Coda right now is basically working on a yearly subscription model for a product which in many ways resembles a late beta. Whereas if they took an extra year and fixed some of the things we all complain about, they would have a better product, a happier customer base, and a better chance of steering new and existing users to their product.
>At a certain point, we just >have to let it go and hope that the next upgrade will be better.
You're taking a long-term view of this. I'm tired of the long-term view. My short-term view is that Coda has not yet delivered the functional product I paid for.
Aaron.
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