Digital BW, The Print

The other annoying thing about Imageprint (yes, it is very clunky and 
incredibly buggy - the interface appears to have been a 10th grade 
computer class project) is the vapourware of IP6.

Promised last October ("it will be a couple of weeks for the MAC 
version and the Windows version two or three weeks following") It has 
still yet to appear. References to it appear and disappear on the 
Colorbyte website.

Over the last two months I have seen three more pronouncements from 
them that IP six will be shipping in a week to ten days (along with 
constantly contradictory statements about who will be eligable for a 
free upgrade and how far back that will be "grandfathered" in) - and 
what do you know - IP6 still hasn't shown itself.

And don't give me the old "well, it's better to release a product 
when all the bugs have been wrinkled out" etc etc - no. it's just bad 
planning and bad business to announce an unrealistic product release 
which you should know you can't meet, and then keep stringing clients 
and customers along with more "the cheques in the mail" type of waffle

It's an overpriced and badly designed product which does what it's 
supposed to do fairly well (but it doesn't always do that), with 
extortionate service contracts (which you need if you are relying on 
this for business, because it's so buggy and something is always 
screwing up) and gets away with it because it's the only game in town 
and has no competition - and for that we are supposed to be grateful 
and smile while handing over our dollars...? Yeah right.